Politico: Senate Democrats are searching for an elusive plan C on elections and ethics reform after facing yet another setback Wednesday.In a 49-51 vote, the Senate failed to move forward on Democrats’ latest elections reform bill, which amounted… Continue reading

I did this Q&A for Democracy Docket on redistricting, measures of partisan fairness, computer algorithms, and more. Here’s the last question and answer from our exchange: Now that the Supreme Court has held partisan gerrymandering claims to be non-justiciable, what… Continue reading

You can find the unanimous ruling here. For an argument that the Supreme Court need not read 19th Amendment requirements as onerous as claims under the 15th amendment, see Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Nineteenth Amendment and Congress’s … Continue reading

Michael Latner, Tony Smith, Alex Keena, and Anthony McGann in Scientific American: In our view, any reform efforts that do not squarely address the Supreme Court’s erosion of voting protections for voters of color, and do not address authoritarian… Continue reading

Over at Powerline: This is John Eastman’s account of the facts bearing on the Federalist Society reflected in the Claremont Institute statement quoted in my post: 1. I was disinvited from the scholars retreat, on the ground that I… Continue reading

NYT: Senate Republicans were expected again on Wednesday to block action on voting rights legislation, intensifying calls by activists and lawmakers for Democrats to finally do away with the filibuster or find themselves at a steep disadvantage in next year’s… Continue reading

The Journal of Democracy has published this new essay of mine. Whether we look to the internal factional struggles currently taking place in the Democratic Party, or the most recent German elections that required putting together a coalition of three… Continue reading