Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for ...

In an unpublished per curiam opinion, the 11th Circuit affirmed the District Court’s dismissal with prejudice of Donald Trump’s defamation suit against Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN) based on the use ...

We write to express our immense concern with recent reporting that the Department of Justice (D.O.J.) has shared voter data with the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.), and to seek clarity on ...

Roll Call reports that Greg Abbott has set a special election runoff for Texas’s 18th District for Jan. 31, 2026. Abbott has delayed setting the date for 9 months, and the election will occur nearly ...

I’ve posted a short Common Ground Democracy essay on the event in Austin over this past weekend at which Joe Manchin, the former Senator from (and governor of) West Virginia, embraced the fundamental ...

From Bruce Cain’s essay, appearing today at the NYU Democracy Project: At Caltech, I was asked to assist a group of distinguished physicists who were evaluating the technical feasibility of President ...

A new Justice, Democracy, and Law essay at SCOTUSblog. Focusing on the new cert grant in Watson v. RNC, which concerns the deadline for submitting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day, the ...

A Press Release from Issue One provides evidence from tax filings showing how big pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, Merck, and Pfizer, use their trade association Pharmaceutical Research ...

The latest version from Steven Sholk is now available.

We often work and think in silos. Law of democracy scholars assess the state of democracy by considering the fairness of our elections. Traditionally, our focus is on whether voting rules and ...

From the N.Y. Times Magazine, a long profile of the internal workings of the Justice Department and the complete abandonment of basic rule of law norms, based on interviews with 60 former DOJ ...

“In the final stretch of the New York City mayoral campaign, Curtis Sliwa says he was offered $10 million by a group of unnamed billionaires to drop out of the race and clear the way for Andrew ...