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Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing” attacks on the American justice ...
This is from a couple days ago: he Federal Election Commission officially has a new chair. Democrat Shana Broussard, who was nominated to the commission in 2020 by President Donald Trump, formally ...
This updated chart from Milan Singh, at Slow Boring, shows that Democratic party platforms in 2024 mention the word “jobs” much less often than in 2012 and mention “climate” or identity-based terms ...
Looks like a major test of proof of citizenship requirements is going to come out of Wyoming. DOJ has intervened to support Wyoming. Democracy Docket has more information and links.
The NYT has a conversation between Kate Shaw, Will Baude, and Steve Vladek discussing the end of the Supreme Court’s Term. Baude gives the Court an A-, Shaw a C-, and Vladek says incomplete. Along the ...
Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, ...
The NYT covers Mamdani’s electoral coalition for the primary, and the combination of new registrations and younger voters is ...
Because the government believes the relevant provision of the campaign-finance laws is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has appointed Roman Martinez to argue in defense of the constitutionality of ...
Several provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections have run into obstacles in court. But others are quietly moving ahead, at least for now, with big potential implications for ...
Senior Justice Department officials are exploring whether they can bring criminal charges against state or local election officials if the Trump administration determines they have not sufficiently ...
Congratulations to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken on this new phase of her career. See this NYT story.
Interesting interview with the field director of the Mamdani campaign at City & State NY about the nature of their ground operation: It wasn’t just the TikTok videos. Zohran Mamdani’s primary upset ...