California Common Cause has released a first-of-its-kind index and report on campaign finance laws in all California cities. The report, Local Dollars and Local Democracy, is an analysis of all ...

Until electoral reform occurs, the best way to protect democracy is for a bipartisan coalition to join together in a campaign against a would-be autocrat.” The reference to “traditional” Republicans ...

California Common Cause has released a first-of-its-kind index and report on campaign finance laws in all California cities. The report, Local Dollars and Local Democracy, is an analysis of all ...

As I noted earlier on this blog, the Court was faced with a procedural mess (I called it a “train wreck”) in the LA redistricting case. Two different federal courts had issued two decisions which left ...

Order. Early coverage in the Times, the Post, and Reuters. I’m sure others will want to comment on this complicated case. I note here only that under my self-districting proposal, these messy issues ...

Download it while it is hot, as Larry Solum might say. In April 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced that his office was bringing a … Continue reading “Charting the Indicted ...

I blogged some questions about the future of the Commission of Presidential Debates. And my instincts were right. We learned today that the Biden and Trump campaigns have privately back-channeled with ...

The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights” offers an accessible look at the erosion of voting ...

The Georgia Supreme Court refused to issue a ruling, leaving the legality of Cobb County Commissioners’ electoral districts uncertain. The County is Georgia’s third-largest. While the Court agreed ...

Three GOP senators have appeared with Trump in court and conveniently proceeded to say precisely what he can’t.” J.D. Vance’s tweets today attacked the credibility of Michael Cohen and the ...

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I’ve posted on SSRN this paper, to be published in the Florida Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The Madisonian political philosophy upon which the U.S. Constitution rests did not supply the nation ...