The Supreme Court’s decision to set Louisiana v. Callais for reargument next term suggests that the Voting Rights Act’s respite from the conservative Court’s attacks is likely over. It is, therefore, ...

Interesting analysis with data from Nataniel Rakich @baseballot on the limited risk incumbents face in primary elections, even when party voters are generally unhappy with their party. The Democratic ...

Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that ...

This is an excerpt from Rick Hasen’s contribution to the Balkinization Symposium on  Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment: The rise of the nine-figure donor raises two ...

Trump’s motion to dismiss the case can be found here.

As he looks back at the defeat of former Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, the thing that keeps bothering Andrei Cherny, a onetime Democratic speechwriter and state party leader, is that he didn ...

The NYT covers Mamdani’s electoral coalition for the primary, and the combination of new registrations and younger voters is ...

This is from a piece at The Bulwark on developments at the DNC: DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE CONFIDENT they can retake the House in the 2026 midterms. But that optimism is increasingly clouded by fear thata ...

NPR’s latest report is truly a blockbuster. The SAVE system run by DHS has always been a system keeping track of the immigration status of individuals at some point in the immigration system ...

I agree with Votebeat’s topline description of the latest tiff in the Wolverine State: Michigan’s top election official is locked in a clamorous legal battle with Republican lawmakers over access to ...