From the USA Today Network, this particular change caught my attention: “HB 154, which will go into effect on Sept. 30, allows voters to request that their ballot be hand-counted if they live in a ...

Randy Barnett’s contribution to The NYU Law Democracy Project’s “100 ideas in 100 days” series asks this question. I encourage you to read for a succinct statement of his viewpoint. Whether or not he ...

Nebraska Examiner reports on the Common Cause lawsuit.

When people perceive politics as existential, they believe the country will never be the same, in a fundamental way, if the other side prevails. The other side is not merely the opposition, but … Cont ...

Over at TPM, I wonder whether a brilliant bit of South Park satire may shed some helpful light on the magical wishcasting of unilateral federal executive control over electoral process.

It is often observed among scholars of democracy that an essential ingredient for the success of democracy is for political opponents to view each other, not as implacable enemies to be crushed, but ...

Votebeat reports, focusing on the pending case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, but also noting the recent Third Circuit decision: “The Republican National Committee is asking the full bench of 3rd ...

N.Y. Times reports. “The chaos is partly from an act of fate — the death of Mr. Turner on March 5 — but mostly from acts of humans. A special election to serve out the remainder of Mr. Turner’s term ...

Last week at NYU’s Democracy Project‘s series of 100 essays in 100 days, we featured two essays, among others, on the role of Congress in this moment. One, from congressional expert Molly Reynolds, is ...

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has a piece that provides a policy critique of this decision from his Cato colleague David Bier and then a discussion of the legal issues. Here’s some of the legal ...

POLITICO reports. “Democrats trying to counter President Donald Trump’s red-state gerrymander are facing a roadblock. Fifteen roadblocks, actually. “That’s how many Democratic-led states have a ...

Peter Baker in The NY Times details all the ways Trump’s attacks on dissent differs from his predecessors. A few paragraphs in this piece, all of which is well worth reading, struck me in particular: ...