Back at the time the Court was asked to hear this case about when candidates have standing to challenge election laws in advance of an election, I supported on this blog the Court taking the case. I ...

A 3-judge California district court, on a 2-1 party line vote, issued this order holding that California likely did not engage in a racial gerrymander (or violate Section 2 of the VRA) when California ...

NYT: Democratic Party insiders are beginning to puzzle over one of the more consequential decisions for the party’s future: which states should vote first in the 2028 presidential primary elections.

Supreme Court justices take two oaths. The first, required of all federal officials, is a promise to support the Constitution. The second, a judicial oath, is more specific. It requires them, among ...

WaPo: President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that Democrats would “find a reason to impeach me” if the GOP lost control of Congress — using the prediction to pressure lawmakers to unify behind a ...

Congress learned some hard lessons about the limits of its power during the first year of the second Trump administration, when Republican leaders in both chambers largely declined to check a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democrats are pushing hard to fight Republicans to a draw in the battle over gerrymandered congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections, with both parties facing internal divisions over how ...

Some people collect coins. Some run marathons. A few spend tens of millions of dollars to influence politicians or political parties. Brian Heywood, a hedge fund founder in the Seattle suburbs, is ...

A Democratic Fulton County commissioner who blocked Republican election board nominees in defiance of a judge’s order is running to become Georgia’s next secretary of state. Commissioner Dana Barrett ...

President Donald Trump is seeking more than $6.2 million in attorney fees and costs from the Fulton County District Attorney’s office after the election interference case brought against him and ...