WaPo: There are really three political parties in Washington, according to an old saying: Democrats, Republicans and appropriators. The latter aremembers of Congress lucky enough to get placed on the ...

During my visit to Australia, I was a guest on an episode of the Presidential Upending! podcast hosted by professors Claire Corbould and Zim Nwokora of Deakin University. I really enjoyed this ...

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices … Continue re ...

The fate of five congressional districts redrawn by Texas to ensure Republicans retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026 is now in the hands of three judges. Representatives of ...

Adam Liptak’s article in today’s NYT feature this essay that Caleb Nelson wrote for NYU’s Democracy Project series of 100 essays in 100 days. The title and subtitle of the article are Originalist ...

I have written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court ...

NYT: More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them ...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on having conversations amid a wave of political violence, on “Fox News Sunday”: “I feel like when I talk to people, people are not happy with … Continue readin ...

Back in my 2000 California Law Review article, Vote Buying, I wrote about how some jurisdictions, such as California ...

California’s famously slow vote-counting process could see slight improvements next year after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that gives counties an earlier deadline to tally voters’ ballots. The law ...

Democracy in Ohio suffered a setback when the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last month refused to block Ohio’s House Bill 1 ban on “foreign nationals” “[m]ak[ing] a contribution … or ...

One woman made national news when she protested the Covid-19 vaccine at her local City Council. Another is a member of the Trumpettes, a group of women united in their ardent support for the president ...