Very interesting report from Paul Kane of the Washington Post of a day-long meeting of 7 former Republican and six former Democratic members of Congress: “Their ideas ranged from a major rethinking of ...
The Republican National Committee and its lawyers are going state to state seeking to influence what laws and procedures will govern the November election.” I think it’s only fair to point out, which ...
I very much appreciate Tabatha’s follow-up to my earlier post, and I especially appreciate her discussion of the new article Dismantling the Party System: Party Fluidity and the Mechanisms of ...
That’s the message of the majority leader in Maine’s House of Representatives. For more, Newsweek has a story. So do several Maine media outlets (available on Google News, although at least one is ...
N.Y. Times. Adam quotes Pam Karlan, Mellisa Murray, and Michael Dorf, as well as excerpts from the oral argument. For example: ‘In the real world, Professor Karlan said, “it’s really hard to imagine a ...
In The Tyranny of the Two-Party System, Lisa Disch writes that the pervasive narrative that the United States is, and will always be, a two-party system is a product of “a reading of history that ...
POLITICO: “On Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an “entirely off-the-record, private,” and “invite-only” meeting with senior campaign ...
N.Y. Times analysis of the various state-level prosecutions, discussing the extent to which they will deter similar efforts this year: “Republican leaders, however, have been defiant in the face of ...
The Washington Post editorial following yesterday’s argument takes essentially the same position as I advocated in my comment last night. First, the Court could adopt a “reasonableness” test to ...
A powerful argument by Aziz Rana for a view that seems largely, although not entirely, persuasive to me. I share the basic premise that it’s wrong and dangerous to overly laud the Founders, a point I ...
Having listened to the oral argument this morning, I find myself contemplating two basic points. First, there is the paramount distinction between official acts and private acts, with the significant ...
Amy Gardner and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez in the Washington Post: “When conservative lawyer and media personality Christina Bobb became the latest member of Donald Trump’s inner circle to be charged for ...