At Law 360:
While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental,social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal askingfor increased transparency around corporate political spending has passed atfive companies, surprising some experts.This proxy season, 13… Continue reading
From the AZCentral:
Clint Bolick is worried.
The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing” attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump… Continue reading
This is from a couple days ago:
he Federal Election Commission officially has a new chair.
Democrat Shana Broussard, who was nominated to the commission in 2020 by President Donald Trump, formally became FEC chair on Tuesday, two months after… Continue reading
This updated chart from Milan Singh, at Slow Boring, shows that Democratic party platforms in 2024 mention the word “jobs” much less often than in 2012 and mention “climate” or identity-based terms more often.
The NYT has a conversation between Kate Shaw, Will Baude, and Steve Vladek discussing the end of the Supreme Court’s Term. Baude gives the Court an A-, Shaw a C-, and Vladek says incomplete. Along the way, I’m appreciative of… Continue reading
Interesting interview with the field director of the Mamdani campaign at City & State NY about the nature of their ground operation:
It wasn’t just the TikTok videos.
Zohran Mamdani’s primary upset was powered by an army of tens of… Continue reading
Madhav Khosla is a rising star in comparative constitutional law. Just saw this post he did last week at Balkinization, with Milan Vaishnav, about an article of theirs at the intersection of elections and governance. The article wrestles with how… Continue reading
Looks like a major test of proof of citizenship requirements is going to come out of Wyoming. DOJ has intervened to support Wyoming. Democracy Docket has more information and links.
Justin Jouvenal @jjouvenal and Beth Reinhard @bethreinhard at the Washington Post have this story about the political party coordinated-spending case the Court will hear next Term:
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will… Continue reading
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