Beginning on his first day in office and continuing for the past year in plain view of the American people, Donald Trump has orchestrated and led a sweeping federal government effort to subvert the ...

Politico: A top Department of Homeland Security official vowed during a private call with election officials Wednesday that immigration officers will not be stationed at polling places in November ...

Republicans in Congress, supported vocally by the Trump administration, are pushing for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act. It now appears to have majority support in ...

Here is the NYT obituary. Condolences to his family and friends. I’ve been reading a lot about Jackson, including Abby Phillips’ excellent new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for ...

Politico: A flood of Republican-backed efforts to tighten voter ID laws is serving as a distraction from more serious threats to the American voting system, according to top election security experts.

The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference.” ...

The UK held a special election (what they call a by-election) for a parliamentary seat from Gorton and Denton. In an area held by Labour for nearly 40 years, the Green Party won, with the Reform Party ...

At the NYU Democracy Project, my colleague Bob Bauer has an essay on with respect to which institutions transparency reforms would be good policy and where not. Here’s an excerpt; it’s a long essay, ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Beyer at Cardinal News on impacts of uncertainty on local election officials coping with re-redistricting referendum in Virginia: The General Assembly last week passed legislation that set ...

Richard Re has a long essay at Scotus Blog on the various potential ramifications for standing doctrine more generally from the Supreme Court’s decision in Bost v. Illinois Election Board, earlier ...