NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Tuesday subpoenaed Rudolph W. Giuliani and the legal team that pursued a set of conspiracy-filled lawsuits on behalf of former President Donald J. Trump that made claims… Continue reading

You can find the opinion of the Court here. I think the Court was likely wrong to subject this to strict scrutiny and I was surprised there was no discussion of the AFPF v. Bonta decision of the Supreme… Continue reading

Voters in Alaska adopted a top-four primary election structure and ranked-choice voting in the general election as a way to reward candidates with the broadest electoral appeal. Those reforms have been challenged under the state constitution, with the state supreme… Continue reading

I’m looking forward to participating in this event (free registration required): The Wake Forest Law Review is excited to present “Preserving American Democracy,” a symposium evaluating the influence of First Amendment jurisprudence and election law on modern American Democracy.… Continue reading

NYT: Senate Democrats plan to press ahead this week with an effort to push new voting rights protections through Congress, in an all but doomed attempt to enact a key piece of President Biden’s agenda that has been undercut… Continue reading

NYT: With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access to voting, Democrats face an electoral landscape in which they will need to spend heavily to register and mobilize voters if they are… Continue reading

Before this redistricting cycle began, I wrote a lengthy essay on the importance of competitive congressional districts as one means of limiting political extremism, as part of my more general focus on institutional reforms that might help mitigate extremism.… Continue reading

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Politico: Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that he “never got a call from the White House” to negotiate bringing Republicans and Democrats together to create bipartisan voting reform.The Utah Republican lamented the lack of bipartisanship on the pivotal issue… Continue reading

Ron Brownstein in the Atlantic on Chief Justice Roberts’s responsibility for — even authorship of — the poor state of American democracy. Roberts as much as anyone set in motion the events that have led to this week’s climactic Senate… Continue reading

Now that the Ohio Supreme Court has struck down Ohio’s congressional plan on state constitutional grounds, it’s worth considering whether an “independent state legislature” challenge could be brought on this basis. The thrust of the challenge would be that the… Continue reading