New Common Ground Democracy column, with this subtitle: “The consequences of the nation’s two-party system is vividly on display with the elimination of Kyrsten Sinema and Nikki Haley from their respective races.” Since writing the column last night, I… Continue reading

Houston Chronicle: The Court of Criminal Appeals upsets are much more clearly attributable to Paxton and his political allies, Jones said. At a campaign event for Marc LaHood in San Antonio in January, Paxton asked for a show of hands… Continue reading

Katie Porter, who did not make it into the top-two primary for the CA Senate race after coming in behind Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey put out a message saying “Because of you, we had the establishment running scared —… Continue reading

Politico reports.

LDF Release: Last week, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute released a new research brief, When the State Takes Over: How State Officials Usurping Local Control Threatens Local Black Political Power, authored by Senior Researcher Dr. Sandhya… Continue reading

Insightful Adam Liptak analysis at the NYT.

Politico: The Supreme Court said Monday it was avoiding “chaos” by squashing state-level efforts to throw Donald Trump off the ballot. Instead, the high court may have just shifted that chaos to Congress. The decision ignited an intense debate… Continue reading

Joan Biskupic for CNN: Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot. She chastised her colleagues on the right… Continue reading

Dahlia Lithwick and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: The latest decisions out of the Supreme Court, first on when to hear former President Donald Trump’s immunity appeal, then on how to deal with his Colorado ballot… Continue reading

NYT: Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.… Continue reading

Great sleuthing from Mark Joseph Stern:

Following up on my earlier discussion of today’s ruling, some are asking whether the decision about Congress’s power is really 6-3 and I wrote, or 5-4 given Justice Barrett’s concurrence. Justice Barrett joined Parts I and II.B, but not… Continue reading

You can find the Supreme Court’s decision, along with separate opinions of Justice Barrett, and Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson (together) at this link. [This post is in progress] The Court unanimously agrees that states cannot enforce Section 3… Continue reading

USA Today:  No Supreme Court justice seemed eager last month to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot when they heard Trump’s challenge to the decision in Colorado that he can’t be a candidate. Their apparent agreement on a… Continue reading