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 ...

A federal watchdog has opened dozens of investigations to determine if President Trump and his top aides have illegally withheld billions of dollars in congressionally approved funds. Now, Republican ...

NYT has this story on a possible Democratic walkout of the special legislative session: “Republicans in the Texas Legislature are planning to hold off on voting on measures to address the state’s ...

The White House on Wednesday plans to reveal how it will position the United States to lead a global race to develop artificial intelligence and unveil three executive orders intended to boost the ...

The Trump administration is defying a court order by refusing to say how federal agencies may be implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order, pro-voting groups and ...

Here’s the letter opposing the proposed consent decree in National Religious Broadcasters Association et al v. Long, arguing that it adopts a “stunningly inaccurate reinterpretation of the Johnson ...

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and immigration status of people applying for government benefits…. But SAVE’s ...

After historically high turnout in the 2020 presidential election amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2024 presidential election saw a decline in turnout across California. Despite the hopeful ...

AJC: The Frost family used nearly $1.4 million in campaign contributions, much of it allegedly swindled from investors, to build political clout in Georgia and across the nation over the past two ...

Nick’s recent partisan fairness post notes that changes to California’s congressional redistricting would require an amendment to the state constitution. That seems right to me. But it’s also not the ...

Ohio must pass a new congressional map this year, but Democrats are threatening to qualify a referendum for the ballot that could stop Republicans from further gerrymandering the state’s already ...

North Carolina’s county election boards have not been able to meet for about a month, requiring the state Board of Elections at its meeting Monday to allow newly appointed officials to make some ...