From the Washington Post:
The Republican Party’s finances are increasingly worrisome to party members, advisers to former president Donald Trump, and other operatives involved in the 2024 election effort, according to 10 people familiar with the matter….
Donors have… Continue reading
This piece is from @gideonrachman, the Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator (I believe it’s paywalled.) For an extended academic discussion of these issues, see my piece, “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West.” From Rachman:
“Political groups… Continue reading
This Nate Cohn piece for the NYT argues that we should take seriously the results from a number of recent polls which converge on the finding that young voters are more divided on a Biden-Trump contest than in 2020. But… Continue reading
One county in critical swing state of PA continues to have problems with its touch-screen voting machines. It’s a good thing the system prints out paper recordings of their vote that voters can check, which is one of the policies… Continue reading
Boulder elected its mayor for the first time and also used ranked-choice voting to do so. This was an example of a “come from behind” RCV win. In the initial tally, two candidates from the Boulder Progressives split the vote… Continue reading
Sherrilyn Ifill for WaPo oped:
The 14th Amendment is treated as a suggestion but rarely imposed in full measure when the status quo will be upended. This was perhaps most famously on display in 1955, in the case of Brown II,… Continue reading
NYT:
Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to publicly release thousands of hours of Capitol security footage from Jan. 6, 2021, has fueled a renewed effort by Republican lawmakers and far-right activists to rewrite the history of the attack that day and… Continue reading
Nevada Independent:
A Carson City judge has struck down an effort from reproductive rights groups to place a question on the 2024 ballot that aimed to establish a state constitutional right to abortion.
District Court Judge James Russell ruled Tuesday… Continue reading
Michael Wines in the NYT:
For the people who run elections at thousands of local offices nationwide, 2024 was never going to be an easy year. But the recent anonymous mailing of powder-filled envelopes to election offices in five… Continue reading
NYT:
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election rejected on Friday a request by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to remove language from his indictment describing the role he played… Continue reading