NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack… Continue reading
Nate Cohn for NYT’s “The Tilt:”
It has long been clear that the rise of Donald J. Trump meant the end of the Republican Party as we once knew it.
It has belatedly become clear that his rise may have… Continue reading
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column:
President-elect Donald J. Trump has singled out one former member of the Supreme Court as his judicial north star: Justice Antonin Scalia, a giant of the conservative legal movement who died in 2016.
“Justice… Continue reading
NYT:
He promised salvation for a country “in ruins” — an end to immigration, a civil service stripped of entrenched left-wing opponents, a judiciary purged of meddlesome judges and a news media giving voice to the people instead of elites.… Continue reading
Penn Capital-Star:
The Democratic and Republican parties will withdraw 20 lawsuits on behalf of their candidates for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat following incumbent Sen. Bob Casey’s concession Thursday to Senator-elect Dave McCormick.
Filed in more than a dozen counties, the… Continue reading
Miles Park for NPR:
When John Merrill was secretary of state of Alabama, he felt like it was his job as the state’s top voting official to encourage voter registration.
“One of the things I was known for as a… Continue reading
WaPo:
Leaders of the centrist group No Labels abandoned a planned third-party presidential bid in April after a successful campaign by Democratic allies of President Joe Biden damaged their public appeal and undermined their ability to recruit electable candidates.… Continue reading
NYT:
President-elect Donald J. Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch… Continue reading
The published version of this article is now available, as part of a political reform symposium published at the Univ. of Illinois Law Review. Here’s the abstract:
In recent years political reform advocates and advocacy groups have proposed a form… Continue reading
NY Times: 2024 is the first general election under the state’s new voter ID law. Overall, the new voter ID law did not result in many votes being rejected. That said, the current law is significantly more voter-friendly than… Continue reading
Democracy Docket has posted an update on the RNC’s challenge to Governor Whitmer’s decision to expand voter registration sites in Michigan. The RNC had take the position that Whitmer was acting outside of her executive authority in increasing the number… Continue reading