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Adam Smith: Interesting that an independent super PAC that isn’t supposed to coordinate with members of Congress comes to an agreement to benefit a specific member of Congress. https://t.co/Pb4m8NBxse— Adam Smith (@asmith83) January 5, 2023

The Republican Party’s struggle over choosing a Speaker reflects large structural changes in American democracy, as well as democracies more generally. For my perspective on that, see my (RP) latest NYT essay. An excerpt: This Washington drama reflects larger… Continue reading

NYT: Pennsylvania’s incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, will nominate a Philadelphia Republican who resisted Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results to serve as the state’s chief election official, Mr. Shapiro said Thursday. For Mr. Shapiro,… Continue reading

Charles Stewart has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although the hardest dividing line between those who accept the election of Joe Biden as legitimate is partisan, there is still variation within the Republican Party between those… Continue reading

CNBC: A nonprofit financed by billionaire George Soros quietly donated $140 million to advocacy organizations and ballot initiatives in 2021, plus another $60 million to like-minded charities. Soros, who personally donated $170 million during the 2022 midterms to Democratic… Continue reading

WaPo: All but two of the 20 Republican House members who voted against Kevin McCarthy for speaker in Tuesday’s third ballot round are election deniers who embraced former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Of… Continue reading

NYT: The nation’s top military officer saw the Jan. 6 attack as similar to the “Reichstag moment” that led to Nazi dictatorship. Aides for former President Donald J. Trump saw their future job opportunities slipping away, and predicted being “perpetually… Continue reading

LAT: Republicans are attempting to pass a new House rule to block materials compiled by the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection from immediately going to the National Archives. Although the House committee investigating the insurrection has released… Continue reading

Politico: The 2022 election just wound down, but already states are scrambling to change election laws ahead of 2024. In Georgia, a push is underway to change or entirely scrap the state’s runoffs, while Ohio Republicans are driving toward stricter… Continue reading

Politico: The Jan. 6 select committee has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence — emails between Trump attorneys, text messages among horrified White House aides and outside advisers, internal communications among security and intelligence officials — all coming… Continue reading

Politico: If there was any doubt Donald Trump’s vilification of early voting is only hurting the GOP, new receipts from the midterm elections show it. Election data from a trio of states that dramatically expanded the ability to cast ballots… Continue reading

Wow: Here are the lawyers behind the Louie Gohmert last-ditch lawsuit discussing whether to file it in DC at first. When they decide they’d likely lose there, they ultimately filed it in Texas. Kris Kobach appears to be the dissenting… Continue reading

Rick LaRue has written this article for ELJ. Here is the abstract: The structural pillars of the U.S. electoral system are eroding and will require repair—i.e., constitutional amendment. Problems with voting, the Electoral College, term lengths, and term limits constitute… Continue reading