The second in a series of Common Ground Democracy essays on the philosophy of democracy and its implications for electoral systems.

Greg Stohr for Bloomberg: The US Supreme Court opens its new term under the shadow of a presidential election that threatens to create fresh strains at a court already deeply enmeshed in the nation’s political divisions. Three months after… Continue reading

Votebeat: Arizona election officials who suddenly discovered that they hadn’t obtained proof of citizenship from nearly 100,000 registered voters were relieved last month when the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that they wouldn’t be required to ask for it before the… Continue reading

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LAT: California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has begun pressing Los Angeles political leaders to sign a legal agreement that would force them to draw new boundaries for the city’s 15 council districts — a dramatic step that could set off… Continue reading

A flurry of activity today, on a Saturday, from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Perhaps the most important statement is this one coming from the Court per curiam opinion in the undated/misdated timely ballots case: “This Court will neither impose… Continue reading

Yesterday was publication day for my new book, Aligning Election Law. The book builds on several earlier articles of mine, and argues that promoting alignment between governmental outputs and popular preferences should be an overarching goal for election law.… Continue reading

A case out of Montana is going to provide the next test of where the Court stands on the independent state legislature doctrine (ISL). In Moore v. Harper (2023), the Court rejected a more extreme version of the doctrine, but… Continue reading

AP: Betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections can resume, at least temporarily, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dissolved an order it had previously issued that prevented… Continue reading

CNN: A Georgia judge signaled Tuesday that he sees a need to bring clarity to the meaning of a “vague” new election certification rule approved by Donald Trump allies that critics say will inject chaos into the battleground state… Continue reading

Release: he American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Luzerne County voters and In This Together NEPA over the county manager’s decision to remove all mail ballot drop boxes ahead of the 2024 general… Continue reading

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Can’t wait to read this new Josh Chafetz draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities). Here is the abstract: Corruption is everywhere at the Supreme Court. The justices routinely rule on what is—and, more frequently, what… Continue reading