This was a great conversation that I moderated with Carolyn Shapiro, Bertrall Ross, Rick Pildes, and Derek Muller. You can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXs6hsibB4Y
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
It is indeed a cause for celebration that the United States Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote in Moore v. Harper, rejected an extreme version of the “independent state legislature”… Continue reading
Sam Levine and Kira Lerner for The Guardian:
In 2013, the US supreme court gutted the pre-clearance requirement in a landmark case called Shelby county v Holder. In a 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the Voting… Continue reading
I have written this piece at Slate. It begins:
More than 20 years ago, then-Supreme Court Justice David Souter tried to warn that big money in politics risked turning United States officials into tools of an emerging “plutocracy.” We now… Continue reading
My latest data crunching of a sample of election law cases shows a steep drop in the rate of election litigation, with litigation averaging 257 .5 cases per year in the 2021-22 midterm election period, down almost 19 percent compared… Continue reading
NY Post:
Efforts are underway to create a “Moderate Party” in New York state and elsewhere in a scheme to aid Democrats punished at the polls in last year’s midterm elections over what critics claim are left-field, soft on crime… Continue reading
This was a great event, the first webinar jointly sponsored by the Safeguarding Democracy Project and the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy at UCLA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1INpweWOqy8
NBC News:
Embattled cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried directed tens of millions of dollars of illegal campaign contributions to elected officials, prosecutors alleged in a new superseding indictment unsealed Thursday in a Manhattan federal court.
The new 12-count indictment adds four… Continue reading