I have written this piece with Jeremy Stahl for Slate. It begins: In a surprising move on a lightning quick timetable that is unlikely to stand if challenged, the New York court that presided over the Stormy Daniels hush money… Continue reading

NYT: A New York judge on Friday upheld President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criminal conviction but signaled that he was inclined to spare him any punishment, a striking development in a case that had spotlighted an array of embarrassing misdeeds… Continue reading

Sam Levine for The Guardian: Until the 2020 election, local election officials worked in obscurity and anonymity, ensuring that the election was fairly administered and complied with state and federal laws. But ever since the president-elect’s loss in… Continue reading

Reform Elections Now hosted a webinar on Electoral Reform in the United States:Proposals for Combating Polarization and Extremism (edited by Larry Diamond, Rick Pildes, and me.). This webinar offers a useful introduction and overview of the book’s content and includes… Continue reading

WSJ: ustice Department lawyers who have angered President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are facing tough decisions about whether to stay in government—and how to best protect themselves from threats of retribution after Inauguration Day. Dozens of prosecutors and agents… Continue reading

Fox News: Opinion columnists for The Hill called on Congress to invoke the 14th Amendment disqualification to block President-elect Trump from taking office next month. In a column published Thursday, Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte argued that the 14th… Continue reading

Nate Cohn for NYT’s The Upshot: When Barack Obama won re-election in 2012, it seemed to mark the beginning of a new era of Democratic dominance, one propelled by the rise of a new generation of young, secular and nonwhite… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024 Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024 Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten … Continue reading

News and Observer: Incoming Gov. Josh Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper sought to expand a lawsuit on Monday to challenge a new wide-ranging law passed by the GOP-led legislature earlier this month that removes power from incoming Democratic officeholders. Cooper… Continue reading

LAT: The Republican Party of Orange County has forcefully swatted down unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2024 election, debunking allegations that went viral after Democrats flipped a hotly contested congressional seat. In a county home to some of… Continue reading

NYT: Heading into the 2024 election, the conservative group Turning Point Action made a risky and expensive bet as it tried to fix Republicans’ early-voting problem: It zeroed in on infrequent voters who seemed to lean to the right.… Continue reading

CBS News: The congressional office of Republican Rep. Kay Granger of Texas denied she is in a memory care facility after a report in the Dallas Express said she has not been in Washington in months and that she had… Continue reading

“One or more of the organizations of the Plaintiffs’ counsels are politically based organizations, such as the organization United to Protect Democracy, whose website states: ‘Protect Democracy is a… group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat… and protecting liberal democracy.… Continue reading