The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: “Every one of them exists today in this country.”… Continue reading

N.Y. Times reports: “The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. “Prosecutors have been looking into whether Mr. Comey should be… Continue reading

Today’s entry in the NYU Law Democracy Project’s 100 ideas for 100 days series, by Samuel Moyn, argues for “[m]aking the votes of the younger count for more” in order to counteract the political power of older voters. Entitled… Continue reading

Fox2 Detroit reports: “The organizers aim to collect 600,000 signatures to ensure they have at least 426,000 valid names to qualify for the statewide November 2026 ballot.” The story goes on to say: “If the law were in effect… Continue reading

Dara Lindenbaum, a Democratic FEC commissioner, has a Washington Post op-ed: “Congress should amend the relevant provisions of [FECA} to eliminate the requirement that the FEC publish individual contributors’ street names and numbers on public disclosure reports. Congress should… Continue reading

In a post yesterday, Ned Foley took issue with the essay from Randy Barnett posted yesterday at NYU’s Democracy Project. Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s piece, so readers can understand the context of Ned’s critique. Today’s post at the Democracy… Continue reading

An hour before Jimmy Kimmel returned to his show last night, Trump posted: “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. … He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of… Continue reading

Randy Barnett’s contribution to The NYU Law Democracy Project’s “100 ideas in 100 days” series asks this question. I encourage you to read for a succinct statement of his viewpoint. Whether or not he accurately characterizes the views of James… Continue reading

From the USA Today Network, this particular change caught my attention: “HB 154, which will go into effect on Sept. 30, allows voters to request that their ballot be hand-counted if they live in a town or… Continue reading

Nebraska Examiner reports on the Common Cause lawsuit.

Has a lengthy quote from Rick Pildes: “When people perceive politics as existential, they believe the country will never be the same, in a fundamental way, if the other side prevails. The other side is not merely the opposition, but… Continue reading

In the latest episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, David Remnick interviews Marc Elias about the threat to next year’s midterms posed by the possibility that President Trump will attempt to abuse presidential power in order to… Continue reading

New Law and Democracy podcast episode.

It is often observed among scholars of democracy that an essential ingredient for the success of democracy is for political opponents to view each other, not as implacable enemies to be crushed, but instead as fellow citizens who have good-faith… Continue reading