Axios reports that after a dinner with Vice President J.D. Vance, Elon Musk is planning to support the GOP strategy for the 2026 midterm. No more talk of starting a third party or financing primary ...

In my 2024 Dunwody Lecture, Combating Extremism, I said that among political reforms that are plausibly realistic in the short term, the one that, in my view, would make the most practical difference ...

AP News reports that the “U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country.” Eighteen states ...

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, over records related to the 2020 election, escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s false ...

N.Y. Times offers commentary suggesting that winning the five seats gerrymandered under the new map “is far from a lock for Republicans next November.” Most interestingly, from my perspective, it ...

Governors Shapiro (Pennsylvania, D) and Spencer Cox (Utah, R) spoke together against rising political violence at an event at Washington National Cathedral. “Both criticized their parties for not ...

Here is the transcript. Back when Citizens United was argued a second time, and Elena Kagan was the Solicitor General, she essentially asked the Supreme Court to lose in the least damaging way. She ...

At One First, Steven Vladeck (Georgetown University Law Center) offers a quick and exceptionally sharp window into the legal stakes. Overall, he suggests Kagan is making three points (offering three ...

In light of the Supreme Court argument taking place today on these issues, I am re-upping the post Bob Bauer and I wrote before the case was granted entitled The Supreme Court, The Political Parties, ...

Here is my earlier post on Caleb Nelson’s essay for the NYU Democracy Project. His essay is cited by both parties in this case, Trump and Slaughter, as well as in nine amicus briefs. Caleb Nelson, a ...

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, ...

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 ...