I was surprised to see such a light punishment for this egregious conduct, especially as this is an area that has seen an unusual amount of problematic activity:  A former city councilman, who pleaded ...

General Election, 2024, a unanimous three-judge decision (lightly revised): On Election Day, November 5, 2024, counsel for the [Trump] Campaign [and RNC] appeared at Philadelphia’s Election Court and ...

This week, three California minor parties filed a federal lawsuit against the California top-two system. The parties are Peace & Freedom, Green, and Libertarian. Here is the 12-page Complaint in Peace ...

Walter Olson at Cato has the following reflection on the recent round of election reform in which he cautions commentators to distinguish “ambitious” reforms that “abolish[] party primaries and then ...

Pete Buttigieg urges Democrats not to get on Trump’s rollercoaster . . . by which he means off their phones and out in communities engaging in associational party building. From the NY Times: “Mr.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) on Thursday dropped his bid for reelection, conceding to GOP challenger Dave McCormick, putting an end to one of the most hotly contested and expensive Senate races, and an ...

A new Common Ground Democracy essay on how the fear of being primaried is preventing the Senate from serving its constitutionally essential role of checking excessive presidential power.

That article was from January, and not from now, and it errantly came up as a new article. I regret the error and take responsibility for it.

News&Observer: Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for Supreme Court, requests a recount where he trails by 625 votes while also filing “a series of election protests on Tuesday challenging ...

This does not bode well at all for the rule of law: President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against ...

Meeks — the winner of 2020’s closest race, notching a six-vote victory before redistricting shifted Iowa’s congressional boundaries — leads Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan by about 800 votes ...

Trump is breaking norms in Washington with glee. Not only is the transition team refusing to subject various appointees to FBI background checks, but the team is fencing executive departments out of ...