After observing that the grand jury declined to indict on one charge, POLITICO’s Playbook goes on to note: “POLITICO legal columnist Ankush Khardori writes in to say that he’s ‘honestly surprised that the DOJ managed to get this past a… Continue reading

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein for POLITICO: “A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted Comey on Thursday on two felony charges stemming from Comey’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 about the FBI’s investigation into links between… Continue reading

N.Y. Times: “A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless effort to exact retribution for investigating his 2016 presidential campaign over possible ties to Russia, according to… Continue reading

Justin blogged on this development earlier today. Here’s the N.Y. Times story on it. The story includes the response in Pennsylvania: “Al Schmidt, the secretary of state in Pennsylvania and a Republican, said in a statement Thursday afternoon that he… Continue reading

Josh Douglas’s essay for the Washington Monthly: “State courts committed to upholding the ideals of democratic representation within their state constitutions should adopt a presumption of unlawful partisanship for a mid-decade redistricting and invalidate these maps. Three aspects of … Continue reading

A new AEI report by Kevin R. Kosar, Jack Santucci, and Jaehun Lee on the new proportional representation system adopted by Portland, Oregon. I’m looking forward to reading the report. Meanwhile, the “key points” summary provided by the authors indicates… Continue reading

N.Y. Times reports: “The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests… Continue reading

The 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were considered fraudulent by most Western democracies. Despite massive support for opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, which independent monitors believe was around 70%, the official results were presented as favoring the country’s long-time president, Alyaksandr… Continue reading

The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: “Every one of them exists today in this country.”… Continue reading

N.Y. Times reports: “The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. “Prosecutors have been looking into whether Mr. Comey should be… Continue reading

Today’s entry in the NYU Law Democracy Project’s 100 ideas for 100 days series, by Samuel Moyn, argues for “[m]aking the votes of the younger count for more” in order to counteract the political power of older voters. Entitled… Continue reading

Fox2 Detroit reports: “The organizers aim to collect 600,000 signatures to ensure they have at least 426,000 valid names to qualify for the statewide November 2026 ballot.” The story goes on to say: “If the law were in effect… Continue reading

Dara Lindenbaum, a Democratic FEC commissioner, has a Washington Post op-ed: “Congress should amend the relevant provisions of [FECA} to eliminate the requirement that the FEC publish individual contributors’ street names and numbers on public disclosure reports. Congress should… Continue reading

In a post yesterday, Ned Foley took issue with the essay from Randy Barnett posted yesterday at NYU’s Democracy Project. Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s piece, so readers can understand the context of Ned’s critique. Today’s post at the Democracy… Continue reading