Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...

An initial big question here is whether enough credible candidates will be willing to run under this party label. Especially since Musk has tried to define in advance the major policy positions of the ...

Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing” attacks on the American justice ...

Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, ...

While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental,social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal askingfor increased transparency around corporate ...

Several provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections have run into obstacles in court. But others are quietly moving ahead, at least for now, with big potential implications for ...

Madhav Khosla is a rising star in comparative constitutional law. Just saw this post he did last week at Balkinization, with Milan Vaishnav, about an article of theirs at the intersection of elections ...

Justin Jouvenal @jjouvenal and Beth Reinhard @bethreinhard at the Washington Post have this story about the political party coordinated-spending case the Court will hear next Term: The Supreme Court ...

This is from a couple days ago: he Federal Election Commission officially has a new chair. Democrat Shana Broussard, who was nominated to the commission in 2020 by President Donald Trump, formally ...

This updated chart from Milan Singh, at Slow Boring, shows that Democratic party platforms in 2024 mention the word “jobs” much less often than in 2012 and mention “climate” or identity-based terms ...

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that ...