This post is a revised version of a nonpublic email I sent yesterday. Several who received the email responded by saying that Lincoln example discussed in the email is useful. Therefore, I’m sharing it here. Yesterday the Washington Post ran… Continue reading

I wrote the following originally as a nonpublic email but subsequently have been asked to make it publicly available. I do so in the spirit that deliberation among scholars about a new Supreme Court opinion as important as the presidential… Continue reading

New Common Ground Democracy essay on yesterday’s SCOTUS decision, with this subtitle: “The effort to prosecute Trump criminally is a consequence of the Senate’s failure to convict him in the impeachment case, and why did the Senate fail in this?… Continue reading

NYT: The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday about executive immunity makes it all but certain that former President Donald J. Trump will not stand trial on charges of seeking to overturn the last election before voters decide whether to… Continue reading

As expected. Analysis to come.

Here’s the link to the recording of the webinar that Election Law at Ohio State held last week on the topic of structural reform of the electoral process–and specifically the policy tradeoffs involved between Instant Runoff Voting (technically, the “Hare”… Continue reading

AJC: Some of Georgia’s most prominent bipartisan leaders are uniting behind an effort to bolster confidence in the state’s election system after years of damage from false claims and discredited conspiracy theories about widespread voting fraud in 2020. The Democracy… Continue reading

Nate Persily is one of our nation’s leading election law scholars (and a friend), with whom I usually agree on many specific matters in our field, but he is quoted today in the N.Y. Times (in an article today … Continue reading

I won’t repeat all of the previous ELB post announcing this webinar on alternative electoral reforms to improve American democracy, especially in light of increasing partisan polarization. I will simply note that the French legislative elections, the first round of… Continue reading

This Washington Post story is full of examples of how extreme rhetoric turns on the spigot of small donations. This isn’t surprising; as I’ve noted, in the days of direct mail, consultants also understood that extreme rhetoric was a key… Continue reading

Nevada Independent:  A Clark County judge has dismissed the charges filed against the six Nevada Republicans who submitted an invalid slate of electoral votes for former President Donald Trump in 2020, ruling that the county was not the appropriate jurisdiction… Continue reading

WaPo: Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties. Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party’s… Continue reading

New Common Ground Democracy essay with this subtitle: “The likelihood that extremist parties on the right and left will gain at the expense of the middle illustrates with hyper-polarization necessitates electoral reform.“ The essay begins: “France is facing a political… Continue reading

WaPo roundup.