NYT: Seventy-one percent of all voters believe that democracy is at risk, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, but only 7 percent identified that as the most important problem facing the country. Americans face more immediate… Continue reading

Nevada Independent: Just six weeks after the 2020 election, a group of Nevada Republicans gathered outside the Legislative Building in Carson City to pledge the state’s six electoral votes to Donald Trump.Unlike other swing states, there was never much… Continue reading

On Meet the Press today, Liz Cheney said that a “new conservative party” would form if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024. The relevant portion of the interview is at about 22 minutes in. A minute later, Chuck Todd… Continue reading

What jumped out to me from today’s NBC News poll is the intensification of a disturbing trend: the belief on both sides that the nation will be destroyed if the other side wins. It’s just one poll, but NBC News… Continue reading

NYT: The analysis of tweets, Facebook ads, newsletters and congressional speeches — more than 3.7 million items in all — relied largely on natural language processing, a technique that uses software to extract information from large amounts of text. The… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

The following is a guest post by Mike Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at FairVote and Program Affiliate Scholar at NYU Law): On Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision that could provide a significant boost to efforts… Continue reading

Rosemarie Zagarri has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay explores historical evidence from the Founding Era underlying Art. 1, Sec. 4 of the US Constitution (and related clauses) that delegate certain powers to state legislatures… Continue reading

Dana Milbank column: f the midterm elections degenerate into chaos in a couple of weeks — a very real possibility — then Nevada is poised to lead the way. Indeed, the chaos here has already begun.The election supervisors in 10… Continue reading

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued a subpoena on Friday to Donald J. Trump, paving the way for a potentially historic court fight over whether Congress can compel testimony from a former president.The subpoena was… Continue reading

Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for counties to help voters fix errors like missing signatures on mail ballots before Election Day.A lower court last month denied an attempt to block counties from helping voters… Continue reading