WRAL:
The North Carolina Board of Elections asked the state Supreme Court to use its power to bypass the state Court of Appeals and take up Republican Jefferson Griffin’s election challenge — a case that could determine whether Griffin wins… Continue reading
NYT:
President Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and punishing his perceived enemies.… Continue reading
NYT:
The demoralization and fear gripping blue America in the early weeks of President Trump’s administration have left liberal groups and their allies struggling for cash, hurting their ability to effectively combat the right-wing transformation of the federal government.
The… Continue reading
The Downballot:
Lt. Gov. Burt Jones hasn’t yet announced his long-anticipated campaign for governor of Georgia, but he’s already taking advantage of a state law allowing him to raise unlimited sums of money—something none of his would-be rivals can… Continue reading
Trevor Morrison and I have published this essay in the NYT today on a question many people are asking.
The NYT gave us a lot of space, given the importance of the issue, which makes excerpting the piece difficult. Here… Continue reading
John Langford and Erica Newland in The Atlantic:
Political-patronage systems promote corruption at the expense of effective governance, and Americans grew dissatisfied with the cronyism and moblike rule that flowed from the spoils system. Following decades of effort to enact… Continue reading
This recent polling data will come as a surprise to many.
Like many of the “new right” parties in Europe, the AfD began as an anti-immigration party. Its support began to rise in direct response to Angela Merkel’s decision in… Continue reading
As part of its mini-series of episodes previewing the symposium on Nick Stephanopoulos’s book Aligning Election Law, the Law & Democracy podcast invited Rick Pildes, who will be participating in the symposium, to provide some preliminary thoughts on Nick’s book… Continue reading
Brendan Fischer and Emma Steiner in The Guardian:
In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our… Continue reading
Bolts:
But voting rights advocates are closely watching the election as well. A host of issues related to voter access—the use of drop boxes, accommodations for disabled voters, and voter ID rules, to name a few—may also ride on this… Continue reading