From Devlin Barrett and Nick Corasanti at the NYT: Senior Justice Department officials are exploring whether they can bring criminal charges against state or local election officials if the Trump administration determines they have not sufficiently safeguarded their computer… Continue reading

From Vote Beat: Several provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections have run into obstacles in court. But others are quietly moving ahead, at least for now, with big potential implications for state and local election officials… Continue reading

Also from Politico: Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila has a pitch for billionaire Elon Musk: Join us, and don’t fight the uphill battle of launching a third party. “Making a new third party would be a mistake,” Nekhaila… Continue reading

From Politico, a report on another James Fishkin deliberative experiments, this one centered on Pennsylvania: Voters in one of the most divided states in the country moved closer together on immigration, climate change and voter ID requirements after spending… Continue reading

If I’ve read this correctly, Brad Smith argues in the WSJ that Congress has no power to regulate campaigns, as opposed to regulating elections themselves: But the problem goes deeper than the need to define “corruption” and balance it against… Continue reading

Lots of procedural maneuvering going on in this case for now.

Because the government believes the relevant provision of the campaign-finance laws is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has appointed Roman Martinez to argue in defense of the constitutionality of this provision. Roman, with whom I’ve been on panels, is the chair… Continue reading

Congratulations to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken on this new phase of her career. See this NYT story.

This is the first polling data I’ve seen on this. As reported in Politico Playbook. Full data from the survey is at this link. Note this survey was sponsored by Fair Vote and Common Cause NY, both of which support… Continue reading

Interesting analysis with data from Nataniel Rakich @baseballot on the limited risk incumbents face in primary elections, even when party voters are generally unhappy with their party. The Democratic Party’s current +55-point net favorability rating among its own members is… Continue reading

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that the 1974 FECA amendments aimed to “establish[] an independent [FEC] within… Continue reading

Trump’s motion to dismiss the case can be found here.