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“Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Is Based on Failures of US Corporate Democracy, not Foreign Dictators”
Six weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, experts are sounding the alarm for democracy. Trump quickly followed his inauguration with an attack on the bureaucratic state, threats to the rule ...
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“The House’s Republican bias is gone. But the gerrymander lives.”
Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I wrote this column in today’s Washington Post on the evaporation of the U.S. House’s longstanding pro-Republican bias in the 2020s. For more than two decades, the ...
Election Law Blog5h
Democrats Currently Hold a Net of 7 More Seats in Congress Than They Would With “Fair” Maps
That’s one of the bottom-line findings that will surprise many in today’s Washington Post article that Nick Stephanopoulos co-authored and blogs about below. The five states most biased toward one ...
Election Law Blog8h
Elena Kagan Says Her Most Meaningful Dissenting Opinion is Her Dissent in Common Cause v. Rucho
Justice Kagan, who went to Princeton, recently received Princeton’s Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor. In one of the best interviews I’ve seen of a current Justice, Princeton President ...
Election Law Blog5h
“Wisconsin Supreme Court race puts Trump and Musk at center stage”
President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk’s policies will get their first major test at the ballot box this spring in an election that will determine who controls the Wisconsin Supreme Court and ...
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“Democrats Fume Over a Data Disaster Averted: ‘This Can’t Happen Again'”
NYT: Problems with a huge database of voter information that effectively functions as the central nervous system of the Democratic Party grew so worrisome last summer that top Democrats staged an ...
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“Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats”
NYT: Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Donald Trump Still Hasn’t Disclosed His Secret Transition Funders”
Notus: Donald Trump still hasn’t disclosed private transition donors, missing a deadline that every other president, including Trump himself in 2016, has met for decades. When Trump’s campaign decided ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Catalysts of Insurrection: How White Racial Antipathy Influenced Beliefs of Voter Fraud and Support for the January 6th Insurrection”
Tye Rush, Chelsea Jones, Michael Herndon, and Matt Barreto have written this article for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Here is the abstract: On January 6, 2021, the belief that voter ...
Election Law Blog5d
Divided Ninth Circuit finds Congress holds power to regulate presidential elections as it does congressional elections
Justin helpfully runs through the major elements of the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes, but I wanted to highlight a divide in the opinion I wrote about back in 2022 just as this ...
Election Law Blog2d
Wisconsin: “Bice: Was it sexist for Brad Schimel to say liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’?”
Let’s stipulate at the outset that conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel never mentioned the gender of the four justices who control the Supreme Court. Let’s also agree that this is what ...
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“How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy”
Elon Musk dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of the technology investor Chamath Palihapitiya. Mr. Musk’s visit was meant to be discreet. Still … Continue rea ...