Marshall Cohen for CNN: An alleged bribery scheme in the Philippines has thrown a potential lifeline to Fox News and other right-wing media outlets that are battling massive defamation lawsuits from the voting technology company Smartmatic for their promotion of 2020 election lies. The overseas… Continue reading

Marcela Miranda-Caballero and David Daley’s new piece in the LA Times: Schiff’s skulduggery was unfortunate but totally rational under the current system. In California’s unusual “jungle” primary, every candidate runs in the same preliminary election, and the top two vote-getters… Continue reading

I was honored to be part of this deep dive into the details of the Court’s decisions and its implications going forward. Other participants were Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff of Lawfare and Gerald Magliocca, who has done such important… Continue reading

Matt Ford for TNR: What the Supreme Court did not decide could be as important as what it did decide. The justices did not address the merits of the Colorado voters’ claim against Trump about the former president’s participation in… Continue reading

Mark Graber for the Washington Monthly: In deciding for Trump, the Supreme Court acquired no additional political capital that might be employed against progressive rights and institutions. Instead, the opinion in Trump v. Anderson discredits conservative claims that the Court is making decisions… Continue reading

Alex Keyssar, as part of the Balkinization symposium on my new book, A Real Right to Vote: It is with this backdrop in mind, as well as my own historical writing and twenty years of witnessing increasingly strident struggles… Continue reading

WISH TV: There is little question that Chunia Graves is a Democrat. She is part of the Indiana Democratic Party’s 2023-24 class of emerging leaders, is the vice president of the Marion County Young Democrats and voted in last year’s… Continue reading

New Common Ground Democracy column, with this subtitle: “The consequences of the nation’s two-party system is vividly on display with the elimination of Kyrsten Sinema and Nikki Haley from their respective races.” Since writing the column last night, I… Continue reading

Houston Chronicle: The Court of Criminal Appeals upsets are much more clearly attributable to Paxton and his political allies, Jones said. At a campaign event for Marc LaHood in San Antonio in January, Paxton asked for a show of hands… Continue reading

Katie Porter, who did not make it into the top-two primary for the CA Senate race after coming in behind Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey put out a message saying “Because of you, we had the establishment running scared —… Continue reading

Politico reports.

LDF Release: Last week, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute released a new research brief, When the State Takes Over: How State Officials Usurping Local Control Threatens Local Black Political Power, authored by Senior Researcher Dr. Sandhya… Continue reading

Insightful Adam Liptak analysis at the NYT.

Politico: The Supreme Court said Monday it was avoiding “chaos” by squashing state-level efforts to throw Donald Trump off the ballot. Instead, the high court may have just shifted that chaos to Congress. The decision ignited an intense debate… Continue reading