From voter ID laws to district map-drawing to judges redeciding cases, North Carolina has long been a laboratory of sorts in ways to amass political power. In recent years, Republicans in particular ...
NYT: Two days before the November election, a rogue team of campaign organizers for Vice President Kamala Harris turned a Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia into their secret headquarters. Their mission ...
I wrote this column for the Washington Post on the surprising trend of depolarization in last month’s election. If it holds, this trend has enormous implications for American politics. Here’s a ...
NYT: Former Representative Liz Cheney on Sunday called President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of a congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, ...
In the same NBC interview. There’s also (another) pledge to pardon Jan. 6 rioters on his first day. (And to end birthright citizenship – a portion of the Constitution, of course — on day one.) ...
In his first post-election TV interview, on NBC. In case you’re wondering, this is not, nor should it ever be confused with, normal. At least, not in a democracy.
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
The NYT coverage of the Romanian constitutional court’s decision is here; the court’s decision itself is here. The NYT reports that the decision was based on manipulation of digital media — including ...
Rick said back in September he’d been waiting for this one, and now there’s a petition for cert. Don’t know whether that counts as an early holiday present.
Following on this Pew data, more research from UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center shows that voters’ expressed level of trust in the election process continues to be driven to a disturbingly large ...
Democrats have protested election results in every cycle when a Republican won the White House for at least two decades, so the lack of protests will be a real change. These past objections have … Con ...
This Politico story highlights money spent on third-party candidates thought to boost Democratic chances of victory. But I’m genuinely pretty confused by the reporting: there’s a claim that the tactic ...