How did social media’s treatment of election content change in the 2024 elections? What do Meta’s new announcements mean for ...

WaPo: President Joe Biden used his final address from the Oval Office to deliver a somber warning about the threat posed by the “dangerous concentration of power” in the hands of wealthy and ...

The two candidates in North Carolina’s recent Supreme Court election disagree about the proper forum for resolving a legal dispute involving the election. Republican Jefferson Griffin argues that the ...

Election officials learn to carry out their duties by participating in training at the national, state, and local levels. State-level training is a particularly valuable source for best practices and ...

NYT: A nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat, admitted on Wednesday that it had violated state law by concealing the fact that it had campaigned for her during her 2018 run for ...

NYT: In a closing argument he never got to make to a jury, Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump, insisted that his thwarted prosecution was righteous and that his ...

Pam Bondi’s hearings start today.  She’s applying for the job of Attorney General: the lawyer for the United States.  Given the shifting loyalties and vindictive proclivities of the President-elect ...

In hindsight, this turned out to be the first step toward killing off Meta’s misinformation efforts: granting hoaxes a temporary window for expanded reach while they awaited fact checking. That brings ...

I have written this book review for Political Science Quarterly, reviewing The “Stench” of Politics: Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court by Joseph Russomanno. It begins: After the disputed ...

In that process, one piece of the Project 2025 playbook should be front and center.

The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...

I have posted this new paper on SSRN. It will be published in the Wisconsin Law Review as part of a symposium held last September. The paper focuses on an 1823 letter written by James Madison, the ...