This week, I joined Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick on the Amicus podcast to talk about the Alabama redistricting decision, Merrill v. Milligan. The episode, “Politics Masquerading as Law” is available here.I also had the pleasure of talking Supreme Court appointments… Continue reading

The title on this LA Times story is With Biden’s agenda hanging by a thread, Democrats question Schumer-Klain strategy. Here are some excerpts: For all the ire directed by liberal activists at two moderate senators who in recent weeks… Continue reading

From Sam Levine at the Guardian: When millions of American voters head to the polls this autumn to vote for congressional candidates, the vast majority of their votes won’t matter at all.It’s an idea that’s anathema to the very idea… Continue reading

From NBC News: President Joe Biden‘s signature Build Back Better Act has stalled and his voting rights ambitions have fizzled. But Congress is suddenly racking up modest yet consequential victories, from protecting victims of sexual abuse and improving… Continue reading

New empirical paper from David Brockman et al: A prominent literature argues that moderate candidates perform better in general elections, but a competing literature that emphasizes voters’ partisan loyalties contests these predictions. The 2020 Democratic Presidential primary represented an opportunity… Continue reading

New York’s new congressional plan has attracted attention as one of the most aggressive Democratic maps of this cycle. So I was curious to see how it scores along various metrics. First, its projected efficiency gap of 5% pro-Democratic is… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:  A closely divided state Supreme Court ruled Friday that it would allow a lower court decision to go into effect that will ban the use of ballot drop boxes for the April election. Drop boxes can still… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: When U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson paid a rare visit to the Wisconsin State Capitol last fall to meet with legislative leaders, the expected agenda was to discuss dismantling the state elections commission, newly released text messages… Continue reading

Those of you signed up to get a daily ELB digest from me on Feedblitz (subscribe here: https://forms.feedblitz.com/dmy) have been receiving emails address from my UCI account. That has caused some problem with my email account. Beginning tomorrow, emails… Continue reading

From E&E News, an interesting view on how the decline of competitive seats could affect the politics of climate legislation: Democrats have fared better than expected in this year’s redrawing of House districts — but that’s not necessarily good… Continue reading