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
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
Among other essays we published this week at NYU’s Democracy Project, we published three essays from the three of us who founded and direct the Project — Bob Bauer, Sam Issacharoff, and me. I’ll blog about each piece separately,… Continue reading
Over at Balkinization, David Super, a congressional process expert, has these comments about why preservation of the filibuster is, in his view, in the best interests of both parties. Thus, Super suggests Republicans are unlikely to end the filibuster to… Continue reading
At first glance, the SG’s brief in Callais seems less radical than those of the appellees and of Louisiana. The latter argue that Section 2 is flatly unconstitutional, while the SG’s brief merely recommends modifying the Gingles framework in certain respects. The Gingles framework certainly isn’t… Continue reading
Kevin Cope has written this article for Political Analysis. Abstract:
This article develops the first dynamic method for systematically estimating the ideologies and other traits of nearly the entire federal judiciary. The Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS) method derives from… Continue reading
At the Democracy Project today, we’re running a special feature essay from Caleb Nelson, the Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas. Caleb is a major… Continue reading