Category Archives: political parties

Full Employment for Election Lawyers Dep’t: NC Legislature Files Emergency 4th Circuit Appeal to Reverse Trial Court Decision on Primaries for Appellate Judges

February 7, 2018, 7:28 pmjudicial elections, political parties, primariesRick Hasen

Following up on this post, the NC Legislature has now sought emergency relief in the 4th Circuit.

“Filibusters are Not for Shutdowns”

January 28, 2018, 9:51 amlegislation and legislatures, political parties, political polarizationRick Hasen

Ned Foley blogs.

“As Gridlock Deepens in Congress, Only Gloom Is Bipartisan”

January 28, 2018, 9:44 amlegislation and legislatures, political partiesRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“In major reform, 2020 Iowa caucuses would include absentee voting, public vote totals”

December 10, 2017, 8:28 pmpolitical parties, primariesRick Hasen

Des Moines Register: Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential caucuses would break with decades of tradition in 2020 by allowing voters to cast absentee ballots and then releasing the raw total of votes won by each candidate. A Democratic National Committee panel… Continue reading

“Alabama’s Disdain for Democrats Looms Over Its Senate Race”

December 4, 2017, 8:14 pmpolitical parties, political polarizationRick Hasen

NYT: “I don’t think the Lord Jesus could win as a Democrat in Alabama,” said Brad Chism, who runs a Democratic communications firm in Mississippi that has conducted surveys of female voters in Alabama in recent weeks. “They’re just waiting… Continue reading

“RNC to support Roy Moore in Senate race in Alabama, weeks after cutting ties with his campaign”

December 4, 2017, 8:08 pmcampaigns, political partiesRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

“How did the DNC fall into a fundraising hole so deep as to need a life-line from the Clinton campaign to begin with?”

November 21, 2017, 8:11 pmcampaign finance, political partiesRick Hasen

Dan Weiner on Donna Brazile and the DNC.

Populism and Democratic Institutional Design: Methods of Selecting Candidates for Chief Executive in the United States and Other Democracies

November 8, 2017, 11:46 ampolitical parties, primaries, UncategorizedRichard Pildes

As part of the critique I’ve been developing in recent years (e.g., here) over the excessively populist direction of a number of post-1960s political “reforms,” I have turned my attention to raising questions about changes we’ve made to the… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 19. Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein: Trumpism, and America, After Trump

October 23, 2017, 8:05 amELB Podcast, political parties, political polarizationRick Hasen

What is the connection between Republican Party extremism before Trump and the rise of Trump? What kinds of economic and political reforms can best preserve American democracy? What will life after Trump, and Trumpism, look like in the United States?… Continue reading

“Issue One raises concerns about Democratic Party’s new mega joint fundraising committee”

October 20, 2017, 10:03 amcampaign finance, political partiesRick Hasen

Release: On Thursday, Politico reported the formation of a new mega joint fundraising committee called the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund. This joint fundraising committee will solicit contributions to benefit the Democratic National Committee, as well as state parties in all… Continue reading

“Bannon expands his list of Senate Republican targets for 2018”

October 9, 2017, 5:14 pmcampaigns, political parties, primariesJustin Levitt

CNN covers the expanding GOP civil war.

“The Democratic Party’s nomination process isn’t democratic enough”

September 25, 2017, 10:38 ampolitical parties, primariesRick Hasen

Ron Klain: That means, first, abolishing caucuses and using only primaries to pick convention delegates. (One exception can be made for the iconic Iowa caucuses.) The selection of a president should not be limited to those voters able to attend… Continue reading

“Has the Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?”

September 19, 2017, 12:03 pmpolitical parties, political polarization, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

Eric McGhee and Bors Shor in Perspectives on Politics: Party polarization is perhaps the most significant political trend of the past several decades of American politics. Many observers have pinned hopes on institutional reforms to reinvigorate the political center. The… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: “How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Politicians in New York”

September 18, 2017, 8:18 ampolitical partiesRick Hasen

Great Shane Goldmacher in the NYT: For decades, New York seats have traded hands this way in what amounts to one of the last, most powerful vestiges of Tammany Hall-style politics in the state. Election laws here grant politicians… Continue reading