Justice department officials have asked civil rights division attorneys to reconsider their decision to leave the department in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign that ...

The Wisconsin Law Review just published this article by James Piltch. Here’s the abstract: Academics, policymakers, and judges alike almost universally agree that local subdivision preservation and ...

The president stood accused of dangling exclusive access to the White House for big bucks. Members of Congress were duly outraged, with one prominent Republican assailing him for using “probably one ...

Can contributions to super PACs be corrupting? That question is at the heart of a lawsuit being heard next week in federal court in Maine, where two super PACs are challenging a ballot measure passed ...

The 47th president of the United States may wish he were a king. But in America, the law is king, not the president. Donald Trump may wish he could dictate his unconscionable global tariffs; dispense ...

The conservative activist named by President Donald Trump as the head of the Justice Department’s “Weaponization Working Group” said Tuesday he planned to “name” and “shame” individuals the department ...

A Grand Bargain is Emerging in the Supreme Court’s Trump Cases, But Chaos May be Ahead, Slate, February 8, 2024 Donald Trump is Asking the Supreme Court for the Bush v. Gore Treatment, Slate, February ...

Philadelphia Inquirer: fter years of opposing such a measure, Pennsylvania Democrats are poised on Tuesday to allow a vote in the state House on a bill that, if passed, would create new ID ...

The voting section of the U.S. Department of Justice has only three attorneys left on staff, according to an estimate provided by a group working to support the department’s remaining staff. It’s a ...

As a practical matter, the issue in Louisiana v. Callais is not whether LA will have a second Voting Rights Act (VRA) district, in which black voters will have an equal opportunity to elect their ...

A disputed North Carolina state supreme court race that took nearly six months to resolve revealed a playbook for future candidates who lose elections to retroactively challenge votes, observers warn, ...

Ellen Katz has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Acts of voter harassment are often difficult to prevent. One longstanding, albeit underused, tool for addressing such harassment is ...