Texas Tribune: The Texas secretary of state’s office has released the first batch of results from its review into the 2020 general election, finding few issues despite repeated, unsubstantiated claims by GOP leaders casting doubts on the integrity of… Continue reading

Politico: Capitol Hill’s Jan. 6 investigators are exploring ways to Trump-proof future presidential elections by tightening up how lawmakers certify the results. There’s one problem: A future Congress might simply ignore them.Lawmakers are required under the Constitution to finalize… Continue reading

Part 1 and Part 2. Editors Note: “Between the Nov. 3 presidential election and Jan. 6, Georgia was at the center of the biggest election dispute of modern American history. AJC reporters worked day and night for months… Continue reading

Ruth Marcus from the Washington Post about an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court in a pending campaign-finance case: The brief comes in a case involving Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), challenging an obscure provision of federal election law that… Continue reading

I wrote this short essay for the California Law Review in response to Pam Karlan’s Jorde Lecture, “The New Countermajoritarian Difficulty.” The abstract is below. Also check out the responses by Franita Tolson and Will Baude. In her… Continue reading

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This is my latest NYT essay. It reflects ideas in this article, which is still a work-in-progress. An excerpt from today’s essay: We pay too little attention to delivering effective government as a critical democratic value. We are… Continue reading

The latest from the WSJ.

ACS: In the year since the Capitol building was stormed by an angry mob intent on overturning the results of the 2020 election, congressional leaders and Department of Justice prosecutors have been working to hold those who orchestrated the… Continue reading

Politico reports.

The WSJ has a piece titled How the Capitol Riot Turned a Partisan Congress ‘Toxic’. This part of the piece, in particular, caught my attention. The comments — from lawmakers themselves — confirm my views on how the communications… Continue reading

NBC News: Two Texas election workers on Tuesday asked a federal court to block part of Texas’ new voting law, arguing its prohibition on “solicitation” of mail ballots is unconstitutional.The plaintiffs — Harris County’s top elections official Isabel… Continue reading

This column by Eric Levitz has been generating some buzz. Based on the congressional districts redrawn so far, the piece argues that “the new House map will be much less biased in the GOP’s favor than the old one.” The… Continue reading

From Bob Barnes and Seung Min Kim at the Washington Post: President Biden’s commission to study structural revisions to the Supreme Court found one potential change both Democrats and Republicans have said they could support: implementing term limits for the… Continue reading