A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless effort to exact retribution for investigating his 2016 ...

This morning, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed six new lawsuits, against states that have refused to give DOJ copies of the voter file complete with sensitive information like SSN digits (and, ...

State courts committed to upholding the ideals of democratic representation within their state constitutions should adopt a presumption of unlawful partisanship for a mid-decade redistricting and ...

Justin blogged on this development earlier today. Here’s the N.Y. Times story on it. The story includes the response in Pennsylvania: “Al Schmidt, the secretary of state in Pennsylvania and a ...

The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The ...

A new AEI report by Kevin R. Kosar, Jack Santucci, and Jaehun Lee on the new proportional representation system adopted by Portland, Oregon. I’m looking forward to reading the report. Meanwhile, the ...

The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: ...

The 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were considered fraudulent by most Western democracies. Despite massive support for opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, which independent monitors ...

How likely is it that federal troops will be in United States cities on election day in 2026? Have federal agencies moved from allies of state and local election administrators to impediments … ...

The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. “Prosecutors have been ...

Today’s entry in the NYU Law Democracy Project’s 100 ideas for 100 days series, by Samuel Moyn, argues for “[m]aking the votes of the younger count for more” in order to counteract the political power ...

The organizers aim to collect 600,000 signatures to ensure they have at least 426,000 valid names to qualify for the statewide November 2026 ballot.” The story goes on to say: “If the law were in ...