Justin nicely summarizes the heart of the DOJ’s HAVA complaint against North Carolina. I just wanted to highlight one other detail: the private right of action. Back in October, I noted that a federal ...

Evan Osnos, in the latest issue of the New Yorker, reviews the state of American oligarchy and the First Family’s use of the Oval Office as a private moneymaking machine. One small excerpt: Even ...

Yet another piece – this one from States Newsroom affiliate the Rhode Island Current – about yet another impact of radically underfunding elections offices.

The Civil Rights Division is out with its first new voting case of the new Administration, and it comes directly out of the long-contested Riggs/Griffin race for the North Carolina Supreme Court. In ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation ...

Pollworker’ is Justin’s love language.” They weren’t wrong. Pennsylvania ran primaries for electing its 27,000 pollworkers last week, and Votebeat has the story on the now-unique practice dating back ...

This is a good article about a horrible idea: an October 7 municipal primary for a November 4 municipal general election.  In accessible fashion, the local independent New Bedford Light breaks down a ...

When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes“ and “dummy ...

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos) 2024 Casebook Supplement (Free) Season 6, ...

Elections have consequences. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reminds us that — at least sometimes – lying about elections has consequences too.

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos) 2024 Casebook Supplement (Free) Season 6, ...

Hot off the presses at Just Security, Chiraag Bains — a former colleague at both DOJ and the White House — walks through in impressive detail the current Administration’s dismissal of “all salient ...