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

Doyle McManus in L.A. Times. Also, I missed El Kilgore’s Intelligencer column from a few days ago, A Plan to Fix the Electoral Count Act Is Taking Shape, which quoted this ELB post. The Washington Post today… Continue reading

New evidence on the Trump administration’s meddling with the Census, confirming its focus on excluding noncitizens from the population count for reapportionment purposes. The memo laid out a string of instances of political interference that senior census officials planned to… Continue reading

WaPo on next steps in the Jan. 6 inquiry: But so far the department does not appear to be directly investigating the person whose desperate bid to stay in office motivated the mayhem — former president Donald Trump — either… Continue reading

Persuasive evidence that circumvention of federal contribution limits has occurred since McCutcheon struck down the aggregate limits. A fundraising committee operated jointly by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016 served as a vehicle for state parties… Continue reading

Matthew Seligman on Electoral Count Act reform: This Article exposes the vulnerabilities of the legal framework governing Congress’s role in resolving disputed presidential elections: the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The constitutional and statutory framework for resolving such disputes remains… Continue reading

Stephen Griffin on how voting rights commentary often ignores history, especially in the South. Unfortunately, this viewpoint leaves out one region and one group of surpassing importance to the Democratic party and, one hopes, to the nation as a whole… Continue reading

Without making an endorsement, Governor Wolf released a map for Pennsylvania’s 17 congressional districts on Saturday. His statements explain his view that this map as well as “the ‘citizens’ map’ drawn through the Draw the Lines project of Committee of… Continue reading

This is a guest post by Alec Ramsay of Dave’s Redistricting about a new class of metrics that measure whether redistricting plans favor one political party or the other. People tend to use the terms “bias” and “fairness” interchangeably and… Continue reading

New Brennan Center analysis of the pending Ted Cruz case. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this Wednesday in a case that marks the latest attempt to dismantle federal campaign finance rules. The case, Federal Election Commission v. Ted … Continue reading

The National Constitution Center, as part of its “We the People Podcast” hosted this discussion moderated by Jeff Rosen, NCC president, with Brad Smith and me. The discussion built on the Washington Post op-ed that Brad and I co-wrote with… Continue reading