My student Matthew Cooke and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: California Republicans, now joined by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, have sued California in federal ...

In an unpublished per curiam opinion, the 11th Circuit affirmed the District Court’s dismissal with prejudice of Donald Trump’s defamation suit against Cable News Network, Inc.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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.