The Justice Department has inserted Mac Warner, who last year espoused false claims that the CIA stole Trump’s 2020 presidential victory with the FBI’s help, to run the civil rights division, ...

Axios: A new poll shows most voters in Portland preferred ranked-choice voting to the city’s previous election method. Why it matters: Previous polling showed the new system was widely understood by ...

Three officials in a tiny borough in southeast Delaware County illegally cast dozens of ballots in a 2021 mayoral race, only to have their candidate lose, federal prosecutors allege. Federal ...

WSJ: As the Republican National Committee was gearing up for its convention in Milwaukee, it was also quietly dealing with a serious security breach of its internal communications by hackers with ties ...

I’m following the fascinating German election, which takes place tomorrow, closely. One of the intriguing issues is how the role of the small parties, and the 5% threshold for a party to win any seats ...

NYT: President Trump’s return to Washington has tested the bounds of presidential power and set off alarms among Democrats, historians and legal scholars who are warning that the country’s democratic ...

The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws — all while his administration has ...

NYT: Elon Musk’s super PAC is back. Mr. Musk, the country’s largest donor during the 2024 election, is returning to campaigns by funding a new effort to help elect Brad Schimel, the conservative ...

Mike Parsons and Rachel Hutchinson have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As Americans grow disenchanted with democracy, many scholars suggest that election reforms may offer a path ...

John Koza has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper is in response to a paper entitled “The National Popular Vote (NPV) Proposal for U.S. Presidential Elections Undermines ...

To whet your appetite for tomorrow’s symposium on “Election Law in a Misaligned America”, a preview “Law and Democracy” podcast with Nick Stephanopoulos is available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.

NYT: The Trump administration is targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, despite ongoing concerns that adversaries are stoking political and social ...