You can find the report, authored by Carsten Berg, here: “Random groups of citizens were key drivers of the process at the just-concluded Conference on the Future of Europe. By gathering 800 citizens from all member nations to make… Continue reading

You can watch here. .@JNelsonLDF on CBS News on the Safeguarding Democracy project:"Many lawyers, legislators, scholars and democracy advocates are coming together across an ideological spectrum to examine what we can do to safeguard our democracy as we… Continue reading

Foundation Press Release with description of changes in this edition below: This edition represents a significant revision that reflects the embattled state of democracy in the U.S. and abroad. With the addition of Franita Tolson as well as Nathaniel Persily… Continue reading

NYT: A small team of prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has ramped up its investigation into a scheme to install fake state electors, spearheaded by lawyers who were in frequent contact with Mr. Trump. And… Continue reading

Dan linked to Jessica Levinson’s MSNBC’s opinion piece with the unfortunate title How the Supreme Court could make it legal to steal the next presidential election. While there is ample and justified reason to be concerned about how SCOTUS will… Continue reading

From the Wash. Post: An Alaska Survey Research poll found that ranked-choice voting could help incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the race against Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka. Alaska will conduct a nonpartisan primary on Aug. 16 with the… Continue reading

I’m honored to be a participant in this new initiative of the National Constitution Center. As its name indicates, the “Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy” project aims to redress the erosion of democratic norms that has occurred recently in the… Continue reading

Available here. From the summary: In recent years, we’ve witnessed an onslaught of election-related legislation pulling the nation in two directions. On the one hand, many states have taken steps to erode participation in our democracy, creating hurdles to… Continue reading

I wrote this column for Slate on how Congress could nullify the North Carolina legislators’ claim in Moore v. Harper through a short statute giving the imprimatur of federal law to the regulatory activities of non-legislative state actors: Fortunately, Congress… Continue reading

I’ve written this piece for Just Security. It discusses two features of the effort to have Samuel Tilden prevail in the disputed election of 1876, one from South Carolina and the other from Vermont, both of which lacked any… Continue reading