The Ohio State Law Journal is hosting a symposium focused on Nick Stephanopoulos’s important new book Aligning Election Law. It’s next Friday, February 21. It’s got a great lineup of presenters, including Nick’s keynote and follow-up conversation with my Ohio… Continue reading

Axios: Since President Trump began his political career in 2015, the number of media and defamation lawsuits involving him or his businesses as either the plaintiff or defendant quadrupled compared to the prior three decades, according to an Axios analysis… Continue reading

Harvard Law School held a discussion between me and Ruth Greenwood about my new book, “Aligning Election Law.” Here are some excerpts from Harvard Law Today’s writeup about the event. “The incredible evidence here … is that most voters are… Continue reading

The latest episode of the Law & Democracy podcast is a preview for the symposium that the Ohio State Law Journal is hosting to discuss Nick Stephanopoulos’s important new book Aligning Election Law. More details about the symposium will be… Continue reading

Michelle Schafer at Electionline: Local Election Officials (LEOs) are “stewards of democracy” who are positioned at the frontline of elections in the United States. They ensure fair, free, accessible, and secure elections. LEOs skillfully manage the new obstacles that come with… Continue reading

New from CAP: The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation would require all Americans to prove their citizenship status by presenting documentation—in person—when registering to vote or updating their… Continue reading

Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality procedures, covering all widely-used single-winner election methods… Continue reading

NYT: A series of internal F.B.I. emails released on Thursday showed that agents and officials followed standard procedure nearly three years ago when they opened the historic criminal investigation into Donald J. Trump’s attempts to stay in power after he… Continue reading

In a major decision today, a New York appellate court reversed a trial court decision striking down the New York Voting Rights Act on its face. The court held that the town of Newburgh wouldn’t necessarily be forced to violate… Continue reading

WaPo: he White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington. In a two-page document, Matthew J.… Continue reading

Adam Liptak in the NYT: The right should embrace that legacy, John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former official in the George W. Bush administration, wrote in 2018, after Mr. Trump… Continue reading

WRAL: A new political ad just started airing this week in North Carolina — focusing on an election that’s been over for nearly three months. It’s unusual for a political ad to air long after ballots have been counted. But… Continue reading

On Thursday, Rick linked to a DemocracySoS essay by Greg Dennis arguing that Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is categorically “superior to Condorcet Voting as a tool for political depolarization.” To support his position, Dennis offers two arguments, neither of which… Continue reading

The NYT has a long story by @miwine and @NYTnickc about the decline of competitive districts in the 2024 elections. A key point from an experienced member of Congress comes at the end of the story: “As competitive districts dwindle,… Continue reading