It’s an obvious point, but it can’t be emphasized enough, that the predicament that America’s partisan political competition is currently in is because the Senate failed to convict Trump in his second ...
Ted Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas, set a particularly striking example of consistency recently on free speech. … He couched his defence of speech not in high principle but in instrumental ...
Today, with an international perspective, from Cora Chan on Liberal Enclaves inside repressive regimes. Cora is a professor of law at the University of Hong Kong. Ned blogged about this essay earlier ...
After observing that the grand jury declined to indict on one charge, POLITICO’s Playbook goes on to note: “POLITICO legal columnist Ankush Khardori writes in to say that he’s ‘honestly surprised that ...
A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted Comey on Thursday on two felony charges stemming from Comey’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 about the FBI’s investigation ...
CBS News has a lengthy report on this disturbing breach. “Contacted by CBS News, the NPRC told CBS News that a technician did not follow standard operating procedures for releasing records, and should ...
“The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Thursday on the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s exemption from the transparency requirements of the National Voter Registration Act ...
A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless effort to exact retribution for investigating his 2016 ...
Justin blogged on this development earlier today. Here’s the N.Y. Times story on it. The story includes the response in Pennsylvania: “Al Schmidt, the secretary of state in Pennsylvania and a ...
State courts committed to upholding the ideals of democratic representation within their state constitutions should adopt a presumption of unlawful partisanship for a mid-decade redistricting and ...
This morning, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed six new lawsuits, against states that have refused to give DOJ copies of the voter file complete with sensitive information like SSN digits (and, ...
A new AEI report by Kevin R. Kosar, Jack Santucci, and Jaehun Lee on the new proportional representation system adopted by Portland, Oregon. I’m looking forward to reading the report. Meanwhile, the ...