Here are the 2023 commentaries, in reverse chronological order:
Terrifying Reports About Trump’s Plans for a Second Term Have One Bright Spot, Slate, November 7, 2023
The Supreme Court Needs to Make a Call on Trump’s Eligibility, The Atlantic, September 26, 2023
The Biggest Difference Between the Georgia Indictment and the Jan. 6 Indictment, Slate, August 15, 2023
Why Georgia Might Beat the Feds at Holding Trump Accountable, Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2023
U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case in Our Nation’s History, Slate, August 1, 2023
John Roberts’ Big Complaint About Elena Kagan is Deeply Ironic, Slate, July 5, 2023
There’s a Time Bomb in Progressives’ Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win, Slate, June 27, 2023
There Are Still Two Major Legal Threats to the Voting Rights Act, Slate, June 12, 2023
John Roberts Throws a Curveball, New York Times, June 8, 2023
There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation, Slate, June 1 2023 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
The Urgent Warning That Got Cut from a Supreme Court Opinion 20 Years Ago, Slate, May 30, 2023
What the Court’s Would Do If the Succession Fire Played Out in Real Life, Slate, May 15, 2023
Why It’s Fine that Fox and Dominion Settled, Slate, April 19, 2023
The Effort to Suppress the Vote is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream, Slate, April 11, 2023 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
Donald Trump Probably Should Not Have Been Charged with (This) Felony, Slate, April 4, 2023
Unfortunately, the Biggest Election Case of the Supreme Court Term Could Soon Be Moot, Slate, February 6, 2023
Meta is Bringing Trump Back to Facebook. It Should Keep Him on a Short Leash to Protect Democracy, Slate, January 25, 2023
Below the fold, I’ve put the 2022 commentaries that I’m moving to the archive:
I’ve Been Way More Worried About American Democracy Than I Am Right Now, Slate, November 14, 2022
The Courts are the Only Thing Holding Back Total Election Subversion, The Atlantic, November 2, 2022
An Arizona Court Seems to Think Voter Intimidation Isn’t Voter Intimidation, NBC News Think, November 1, 2022
The Supreme Court is Headed for a Self-Imposed Voting Caseload Disaster, Slate, October 26, 2022 (with Nat Bach)
The Truly Scary Part About the 1.6 Billion Conservative Donation, Slate, August 23, 2022 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
What the Critics Get Incredibly Wrong About the Collins-Manchin Election Bill, Slate, July 25, 2022
It’s Hard to Overstate the Danger of the Voting Case the Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear, Slate, June 30, 2022
No One is Above the Law, and that Starts with Donald Trump, N.Y. Times, June 24, 2022
The Jan. 6 Committee Should Be Looking Ahead to Election Threats in 2024, Wash. Post, June 8, 2022
The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk from Unbanning Trump on Twitter, Slate, May 10, 2022
Facebook and Twitter Could Let Trump Back Online. But He’s Still a Danger, Washington Post, Mar. 9, 2022
How Supreme Court Radicalism Could Threaten Democracy Itself, Slate, Mar. 8, 2022
How to Keep the Rising Tide of Fake News from Drowning Our Democracy, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 2022
North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State, Slate, Feb. 25, 2022
What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It, Slate, Jan. 4, 2022
No One is Coming to Save Us from the ‘Dagger at the Throat of America,’ N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2022