Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, an important case on who has standing, and in what circumstances, to bring prospective challenges to election laws in advance of the election. I’ve published… Continue reading

WROC: A printing error led to absentee voters in Rush receiving ballots that were already filled out. Over the last couple of weeks, 33 residents in Rush received their absentee voting ballots in the mail, but every bubble was already… Continue reading

To give you a sense of how party discipline works in some other democratic systems, at the party conference for the Conservatives currently taking place in the UK, the party’s leader, the Kemi Badenoch, announced that the Conservatives would commit… Continue reading

With the start of the Supreme Court Term, the NYU Democracy Project is publishing several essays this week on the Court. The first of these, Enshrine Nine, comes from Ed Whelan, who argues for a constitutional amendment fixing the… Continue reading

NYT: The Trump administration’s levying of political attacks on Democrats through federal agency websites and the out-of-office email messages of furloughed workers challenges the foundation of a nonpartisan civil service, a move that could deepen distrust in the government, according… Continue reading

CBS News: Republicans on Long Island are under fire after they filed a lawsuit to keep the name of a Democrat running for the Nassau County Legislature on the ballot even though he has been missing for over five months.… Continue reading

Here is an excerpt from my essay this week in NYU’s Democracy Project series of essays on challenges facing democracy today, both here and elsewhere: Writing from Mussolini’s prison in 1930, the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci observed of democracies… Continue reading

Next, here is an excerpt from Bob Bauer’s essay in the NYU Democracy Project’s series of 100 essays in 100 days: …I entirely agree with critics who are very troubled by aspects of this [presidential immunity] opinion, including its holding… Continue reading

Among other essays we published this week at NYU’s Democracy Project, we published three essays from the three of us who founded and direct the Project — Bob Bauer, Sam Issacharoff, and me. I’ll blog about each piece separately,… Continue reading