Supreme Court runs the risk of “turbocharging” mid-decade redistricting with its decision allowing Texas to move forward with a redrawn 2026 congressional map a lower court had blocked as a racial ...

You can find the order. a concurrence, and a dissent at this link. All the Republican-appointed Justices are letting Texas engage in re-redistricting, at least for the 2026 elections, and all the ...

Read the unusual motion from SCOTUS-appointed amicus in the NRSC case to file a supplemental brief on jurisdiction after oral argument.

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 ...

I bring all of this up again because of a new article about Machen sent to me by historian Austin Steelman titled: “The Birth of the Dead Constitution: Arthur Machen Jr.’s Early Twentieth-Century ...

NYT: During President Trump’s first term, he effectively outsourced the task of picking judges to lawyers closely associated with the Federalist Society, a 43-year-old conservative legal group, and ...

NYT: X launched a feature over the weekend that displays users’ locations, renewing scrutiny of the provenance of many accounts, including those that post frequently about American politics. The new ...

Yesterday, Derek pointed out that President Trump’s November 7 blanket pardon for acts connected to the 2020 election might be broader than he anticipated. The operative language grants a full, ...

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: A Trump administration official on Friday signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the 2030 census and other future federal government ...

CNN: During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible ...

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 ...

Only two decades ago, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that extreme partisan gerrymandering could violate the Constitution, though they differed on what courts should do about it. On Thursday, ...