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At the NYU Democracy Project, William Galston publishes an essay today on reining in presidential emergency powers. Here’s an excerpt: The most important and urgent constitutional issue of our era is the relentless growth of executive power under presidents of… Continue reading

In the pre-argument essay I published on the Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections case, which was argued today, I concluded with the view that the Court would be likely to reverse the lower court and find standing for… Continue reading

Tonight I’ll be participating in this program at the NY Historical (formerly NY Historical Society) on political reform issues. I’ll be joined by Scott Kendall, a key figure in the enactment of Alaska’s Top-4 primary system, along with Lauren Karallunas… Continue reading

As part of our focus this week on the Court and constitutional law, we are publishing today this essay from Jonathan Mitchell. Readers might be surprised at how much his critique of “judicial supremacy” from the right sounds very much… Continue reading

I’m pleased that this evening I’ll be participating with Akhil Amar, David Rabban, and my colleague Burt Neuborne on an event put on by the NY County Lawyers Association. We’ll be discussing issues of presidential powers, birthright citizenship, the First… Continue reading

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, an important case on who has standing, and in what circumstances, to bring prospective challenges to election laws in advance of the election. I’ve published… Continue reading

WROC: A printing error led to absentee voters in Rush receiving ballots that were already filled out. Over the last couple of weeks, 33 residents in Rush received their absentee voting ballots in the mail, but every bubble was already… Continue reading

To give you a sense of how party discipline works in some other democratic systems, at the party conference for the Conservatives currently taking place in the UK, the party’s leader, the Kemi Badenoch, announced that the Conservatives would commit… Continue reading

With the start of the Supreme Court Term, the NYU Democracy Project is publishing several essays this week on the Court. The first of these, Enshrine Nine, comes from Ed Whelan, who argues for a constitutional amendment fixing the… Continue reading

NYT: The Trump administration’s levying of political attacks on Democrats through federal agency websites and the out-of-office email messages of furloughed workers challenges the foundation of a nonpartisan civil service, a move that could deepen distrust in the government, according… Continue reading

CBS News: Republicans on Long Island are under fire after they filed a lawsuit to keep the name of a Democrat running for the Nassau County Legislature on the ballot even though he has been missing for over five months.… Continue reading

Here is an excerpt from my essay this week in NYU’s Democracy Project series of essays on challenges facing democracy today, both here and elsewhere: Writing from Mussolini’s prison in 1930, the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci observed of democracies… Continue reading

Next, here is an excerpt from Bob Bauer’s essay in the NYU Democracy Project’s series of 100 essays in 100 days: …I entirely agree with critics who are very troubled by aspects of this [presidential immunity] opinion, including its holding… Continue reading