Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Program on Partisan Primaries, Polarization and the Risk of Extremism (with Azari, Foley, Masket, and Pildes)
Very enlightening conversation. Watch:
Category Archives: political parties
April 10 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Partisan Primaries, Polarization, and the Risks of Extremism”
Join us for the final SDP webinar of the spring semester, April 10 at 12:15 pm PT (free registration required):
Thursday, April 10
Partisan Primaries, Polarization, and the Risks of Extremism
Register for the webinar here.Thursday, April… Continue reading
Political Parties—New Ideas
As I mentioned in my last post on this topic, we have a political party that was elected in part because Americans are concerned about the price of groceries. Now that they hold three branches of government, their primary budget… Continue reading
DOJ Gets Another Extension to Respond to Cert Petition in NRSC Campaign Finance Case–Making It More Likely We Don’t See a Decision for Another Year Plus If SCOTUS Takes Case
Political Parties—A Fresh Look
We have a political party that was elected in part because Americans are concerned about the price of groceries. Now that they hold three branches of government, their primary budget goal is to maintain and extend tax breaks that overwhelmingly… Continue reading
Antebellum fusion
Justin again. I had the “pleasure” of teaching Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party again yesterday. Timmons was a federal constitutional challenge to “anti-fusion” laws: laws preventing two parties on the ballot from nominating the same candidate (and thereby… Continue reading
“The Death of Competition in American Elections”
NYT:
President Trump’s return to Washington has tested the bounds of presidential power and set off alarms among Democrats, historians and legal scholars who are warning that the country’s democratic order is under threat.
But a close review of… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “Crawford, Schimel won’t pledge to recuse from cases involving political parties”
Wisconsin Public Radio:
With Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on track to be the most expensive judiciary election in history, neither candidate has pledged to recuse themselves from hearing cases involving the political parties backing their races.
In an interview with… Continue reading
“Georgia Republicans renew push for closed primary elections”
AJC:
Top Georgia Republicans are renewing their push to only let voters who register as party members cast ballots in GOP primaries.It’spart of an attempt to guarantee more ideological purity among the nominees.
The idea to end Georgia’s open primaries,… Continue reading
“Election Day has long passed. In some states, legislatures are working to undermine the results.”
The AP notes a variety of ways in which legislatures may push back.
“Why Voters Rejected Election Reform”
Russell Berman digs in to the reform measures on the 2024 ballot, in The Atlantic.
“‘It’s a very dangerous strategy’: The controversial tactic super PACs used to boost Democrats this year”
This Politico story highlights money spent on third-party candidates thought to boost Democratic chances of victory.
But I’m genuinely pretty confused by the reporting: there’s a claim that the tactic “was used significantly more this year than in other recent… Continue reading
“How N.C. Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Early Voting”
The subhead of this story in The Assembly: “GOP lawmakers predicted 25 years ago that Democrats would use early voting to steal elections in North Carolina. This year, they rallied voters to embrace it to secure victory for Donald… Continue reading
“Dems quietly boosted Nebraska’s independent Senate candidate in the final days of the election”
Because of course.