The Complaint is here. The Harvard Crimson reports: Harvard sued the Trump administration in federal court on Monday over its multibillion dollar cuts to the University’s research funding, accusing the White House of undertaking an arbitrary and unconstitutional campaign… Continue reading

MSNBC: This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll event will feature activities “courtesy” of a number of corporate sponsors, including several tech companies that made financial contributions to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. According to a statement from first lady… Continue reading

Karen Tumulty at the Washington Post: “We are all afraid,” Murkowski said Monday at an event in Anchorage. “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where — I don’t know — I certainly have… Continue reading

Politico: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday pushed back on David Hogg’s effort to fund primary challengers against select Democrats in deep blue seats, arguing in favor of a more efficient allocation of party resources. “Here’s the thing,”… Continue reading

Michael Kang (Northwestern) has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Northwestern University Law Review). Here is the abstract: Hyperpartisanship has hit century-long highs in American politics and is emboldening state government attempts to undermine election outcomes by using control over… Continue reading

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The Assembly: Days after Republicans on the state Supreme Court created a path for Jefferson Griffin to overturn his 2024 loss to incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs, the Democratic-controlled State Board of Elections significantly narrowed it.  … On April 15, the… Continue reading

Wilfred Codrington has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard Law and Policy Review). Here is the abstract: Drafted in exceedingly sparing terms and notoriously difficult to amend, the U.S. Constitution is falling short in one of the most important… Continue reading

Military and overseas voters whose votes are set to be thrown out in the long-running dispute over North Carolina’s 2024 state supreme court race have filed a new lawsuit alleging a series of constitutional violations. Harvard Law School’s Election Law… Continue reading

NYT: Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and his family were forced to flee from their residence early Sunday during an arson attack on the mansion in Harrisburg that significantly damaged a section of the building, the governor and state authorities… Continue reading

Jonathan Adler: On Wednesday evening, in Yost v. Brown, Justice Brett Kavanaugh entered a stay of a district court order in  requiring Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to publish two contest ballot initiative summaries. Justice Kavanaugh also called for a response… Continue reading

Release via email: In two letters sent to Mark Zuckerberg today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has removed itself from Meta’s external civil rights advisory group due to concerns over its content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policy… Continue reading

I’m happy to be doing this event shortly. The link to watch the event is here: https://hopkinsathome.jhu.edu/watch-now

The 19th: The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote. The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter… Continue reading