The Brennan Center has conducted this analysis, concluding that at least $1.9 billion was spent on online ads in the 2024 election. From the report: Political advertisers spent $1.9 billion on online ads for the 2024 election on the four… Continue reading

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to proportional representation. Ross Douthat has… Continue reading

The Washington Post‘s Editorial Board is taking local officials in DC to task for refusing to implement a voter initiative to use ranked-choice voting in the District. Voters in the District overwhelmingly approved an initiative that adopts ranked-choice voting and… Continue reading

There has been considerable attention to a slight shift to the right among some nonwhite voters in the 2024 Presidential election. See, for example, here, here, and here. Lenny Bronner and Andrew Van Dam have a story … Continue reading

Politico‘s Michael Schaffer has this piece on the complications of covering our gerontocratic political representatives. The subject in this case is D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. The story also raises a question about the ethical responsibility of journalists when they… Continue reading

Great thanks to Rick Pildes for doing a fantastic job on the blog this past week. As he mentioned, I’ll be your cruise director for the remainder of the week.

Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

An initial big question here is whether enough credible candidates will be willing to run under this party label. Especially since Musk has tried to define in advance the major policy positions of the party. If states permitted fusion candidacies,… Continue reading

As Elon Musk announces his effort to form a new party here, it’s worth noting that even in the UK, the home of the first-past-the-post electoral system, we are seeing the traditionally dominant two major parties losing support to new… Continue reading

At Law 360: While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental,social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal askingfor increased transparency around corporate political spending has passed atfive companies, surprising some experts.This proxy season, 13… Continue reading

From the AZCentral: Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing” attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump… Continue reading

This is from a couple days ago: he Federal Election Commission officially has a new chair. Democrat Shana Broussard, who was nominated to the commission in 2020 by President Donald Trump, formally became FEC chair on Tuesday, two months after… Continue reading

This updated chart from Milan Singh, at Slow Boring, shows that Democratic party platforms in 2024 mention the word “jobs” much less often than in 2012 and mention “climate” or identity-based terms more often.

The NYT has a conversation between Kate Shaw, Will Baude, and Steve Vladek discussing the end of the Supreme Court’s Term. Baude gives the Court an A-, Shaw a C-, and Vladek says incomplete. Along the way, I’m appreciative of… Continue reading