Read the unusual motion from SCOTUS-appointed amicus in the NRSC case to file a supplemental brief on jurisdiction after oral argument.

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

NYT: During President Trump’s first term, he effectively outsourced the task of picking judges to lawyers closely associated with the Federalist Society, a 43-year-old conservative legal group, and ...

Axios: Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting. Driving the news: Democratic ...

NYT: X launched a feature over the weekend that displays users’ locations, renewing scrutiny of the provenance of many accounts, including those that post frequently about American politics. The new ...

I bring all of this up again because of a new article about Machen sent to me by historian Austin Steelman titled: “The Birth of the Dead Constitution: Arthur Machen Jr.’s Early Twentieth-Century ...

As ELB readers are aware, President Donald Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others accused of election misconduct in the 2020 presidential election, especially surrounding disputes about slates of ...

New polling from NPR/Marist aligns with much of what we are seeing in other polling: Trump’s approval rating is now below 40% and Democrats appear to have an edge in the midterm. But what is more ...

AP: Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials ...

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker at the Atlantic have published an article detailing Trump’s extraordinary and unprecedented fundraising efforts since his win in 2024. Much of the effort is directed ...

WSJ: When Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s top civil-rights attorney, sent a letter this summer telling Texas officials that their congressional map was unconstitutional, it set off a ...

This week the Washington Post reported that the ultimately successful effort to release the Epstein files started many months ago with a text exchange between Representatives Thomas Massie (Rep.) and ...