Goldfeder’s latest.

WaPo: The House on Monday passed a rules package that included changes to how ethics-related complaints about members of Congress are handled. According to a summary of the GOP’s proposed rules changes released last week, the package imposes term… Continue reading

Looking forward to this new book out at the end of March from Sam Issacharoff. Kirkus: “An incisive diagnosis of the debilitating disease that has infected democracy and subverted its egalitarian promise.” More from Sam when the book is out.

Complaint. Background.

AJC: The Fulton County special grand jury that has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election has completed its work and is being dissolved, according to the judge overseeing the high-profile panel. In… Continue reading

The following is a guest post by Ruth Greenwood, the director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School: The Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School (“ELC”) now offers free access to summary measures of racially polarized… Continue reading

Carl Hulse for the NYT: Smarting after a dozen years under iron-fisted Republican rule, House Democrats promised to do things differently and open up the institution when they regained majority control in 2007. One of their changes was to allow… Continue reading

An ELB reader notes this provision buried in the rules bill, that would potentially revive some old state calls for a constitutional convention: PROVIDING FOR TRANSPARENCY WITH RESPECT TO MEMORIALS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE… Continue reading

AJC oped from former Ga. governor: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has taken on election denialists, most notably former President Donald Trump’s call to “find 11,780 votes.” For that, we owe him our thanks. Trump and his cohorts, many… Continue reading

WBEZ: Every municipal election, candidates, lawyers and election officials alike gear up for a weekslong slog of resolving dozens — even hundreds, in some years — of nominating petition challenges, a longstanding Chicago tradition to knock candidates off the ballot… Continue reading

Arizona Republic: Maricopa County has asked a former Arizona Supreme Court justice to lead an independent inquiry into its Election Day printer problems, officials announced Friday. Former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor will lead the probe, which was… Continue reading

Cleveland.com: Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed a bill that will require Ohio voters to show a photo ID when voting in person, either early or on Election Day. House Bill 458 replaces current law, which gives voters the option… Continue reading

NYT: Jon Rosenthal has seen some close races, but his re-election to the Texas State House in November, in a Houston district redrawn to be a virtual lock for Democrats, was not one of them. Mr. Rosenthal won by 15… Continue reading

Michael Kruse for Politico: This week 38 years ago, in the first official act on the first official day of the 99th Congress, the Democrats in power did something nearly unprecedented in the history of the House of Representatives. Speaker… Continue reading