NYT: President Trump’s super PAC is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of power in his party’s finances and ...

Adam Bonica and Jacob Grumbach have written this article for the Journal of Public Economics. Here is the abstract: Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines ...

Politico: Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will likely call a November special election to have voters approve new House maps that boost Democrats. By embracing a public vote, Newsom teed up a ...

Having reviewed the record in this matter, including the parties’ arguments before the Board, we reject Respondentís procedural arguments and dispositive motions. On the merits, we conclude that ...

Downballot: Texas Republicans unveiled a congressional redistricting proposal on Wednesday that would, as Donald Trump asked, further gerrymander the state’s map by making five Democratic-held seats ...

Wapo: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. A person familiar with the exhibit plans, ...

In reviewing many of the some 3,000 fact checks I have written or edited, there is a clear dividing line: June 2015, the month Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower … Continue reading “The Fact ...

Fair representation in Congress is under attack. Several bills aim to limit the population used for allotting the 435 congressional districts among the states. …These current efforts threaten equal ...

CREW: Since the January 6 insurrection, over 2,000 corporate and industry group PACs have given over $174 million to members of the Sedition Caucus—those 147 lawmakers who voted against certifying the ...

Chris Walker at Jotwell, reviewing Kevin M. Stack, The Internal Law of Democracy, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 1627 (2024): In The Internal Law of Democracy, Professor Stack examines how internal administrative ...

Justin here. I find much of the work of the UCLA Voting Rights Project to be really valuable — but I have to say, I agree with Rick’s take on their read of the California Constitution‘s provisions on ...

A St. Louis County grand jury on Wednesday indicted County Executive Sam Page on charges involving the use of public money to campaign against Proposition B ahead of the April election. The measure ...