It has long been clear that the rise of Donald J. Trump meant the end of the Republican Party as we once knew it. It has ...

Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump has singled out one former member of the Supreme Court as his judicial north star: Justice Antonin Scalia, a giant of the conservative legal movement who died in 2016.

The University of Illinois has published this excellent symposium. Here’s the full listing of articles: ...

NYT: He promised salvation for a country “in ruins” — an end to immigration, a civil service stripped of entrenched left-wing opponents, a judiciary purged of meddlesome judges and a news media giving ...

When John Merrill was secretary of state of Alabama, he felt like it was his job as the state’s top voting official to encourage voter registration. “One of the things I was known for as a … Continue ...

The Democratic and Republican parties will withdraw 20 lawsuits on behalf of their candidates for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat following incumbent Sen. Bob Casey’s concession Thursday to ...

WaPo: Leaders of the centrist group No Labels abandoned a planned third-party presidential bid in April after a successful campaign by Democratic allies of President Joe Biden damaged their public ...

NYT: President-elect Donald J. Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, ...

NY Times: 2024 is the first general election under the state’s new voter ID law. Overall, the new voter ID law did not result in many votes being rejected. That said, the current law is significantly ...

An interesting article from CBS News on the intraparty negotiations in Ohio, where Governor Mike DeWine will be filling JD Vance’s seat until the required special election. DeWine’s goal apparently is ...

The published version of this article is now available, as part of a political reform symposium published at the Univ. of Illinois Law Review. Here’s the abstract: In recent years political reform ...