The NYT covers Mamdani’s electoral coalition for the primary, and the combination of new registrations and younger voters is ...

I’m can’t-look-away-from-the-train-wreck fascinated by the guidance on how investors can profit off of civil rights struggles: The Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, which gutted t ...

A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.” Across President Donald Trump’s administration, a creeping culture of secrecy is ...

NPR’s latest report is truly a blockbuster. The SAVE system run by DHS has always been a system keeping track of the immigration status of individuals at some point in the immigration system ...

NCSL’s election bill roundup notes the shift of this year’s crop: With most legislatures having adjourned, the number of election bills introduced was 3,160, with 331 of them enacted into law across ...

The Court’s decision to set the case involving the interaction between the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, Louisiana v. Callais, for re-argument came as a surprise. The supplemental ...

I agree with Votebeat’s topline description of the latest tiff in the Wolverine State: Michigan’s top election official is locked in a clamorous legal battle with Republican lawmakers over access to ...

The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...

Votebeat’s weekly newsletter reports on the upcoming meeting of the EAC’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee, and some local anxiety about whether plans are in the works to change direction on ...

I flagged a discussion in The Conversation about trust in elections focused on cybersecurity, where the remedy recommended was more public education. Today, Michigan Advance has the report on a ...

Well, that was unexpected. As mentioned a moment ago, the Court today punted on the Louisiana congressional case, Louisiana v. Callais, setting it for reargument next Term. The order says that the ...

PBS reports on a signature verification issue that’s long been a matter of interest for younger voters, but particularly for Zoomers whose primary interactions are online or on touchscreens, rather ...