Following up on my speculation last week that we should consider the possibility that fractures within the Republican Party explain the unexpected competitiveness of the Texas senatorial race, I ...

Bloomberg: Justice Department leadership directed top federal prosecutors in California to pursue criminal subpoenas of state and local officials regarding their roles administering allegedly illegal ...

Protecting Voting Rights After Callais (Blencke, Katz, Perales, Ross) Season 7, Episode 6, ELB Podcast 7:6 Can and Will Courts Ensure Free and ...

Politico: A federal appeals court panel signaled Thursday that it is unlikely to let the Department of Homeland Security resume a crackdown on alleged illegal voting — a campaign civic groups say is a ...

The Justice Department has begun issuing a new wave of subpoenas stemming from an ongoing criminal probe of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race and alleged efforts by Democrats to recruit a candidate with the ...

As Election Day nears, recent events have prompted some FBI agents to express concern, according to seven people with knowledge of internal discussions among the ranks, that they may be ordered to ...

Release: The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced today that Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on ...

NPR’s Planet Money reports.

Today’s New York Times story, if true, strikes me as a political bombshell: despite public denials of a connection, people associated with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska Mary Peltola and ...

Yunus Aybas, Oguzhan Celebi, and Surabhi Dutt posted this paper on measuring harm from redistricting. Here’s the abstract: District-based elections must reconcile two objectives: representing each ...

Working with Nat Bach and Max Jacobs of the Manatt firm, and Shelby Wayment of the Safeguarding Democracy Project, we have filed this (proposed) amicus brief supporting the State of Alaska in the DOJ ...

Rick H. linked yesterday to the NYT’s new analysis of partisan gerrymandering in congressional plans nationwide. I want to emphasize how methodologically strong the NYT’s analysis was and to show how ...