According to the Washington Post, there will be five black governors now serving, the most ever: Next year, for the first time in U.S. history, there will be five Black governors serving ...

Following up on the wild night of election litigation chronicled by Rick P., a divided Ninth Circuit has issued this opinion, lifting the TRO. The majority and primary dissent essentially track the ...

On April 29, I wrote The Supreme Court Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century in Slate on Louisiana v. Callais. At the end of the piece, I wrote: So what’s to be done? The Supreme Court itself has ...

NYT: The Justice Department is intensifying its investigation into the recruitment of an opponent with the same name as a Republican senator in Alaska, sending letters to about 20 Democrats informing ...

I was on with Juliet Kayyem and interviewer Geoff Bennett. Watch starting at the 39-minute mark: ...

NYT: The Department of Homeland Security has mounted an extraordinary campaign to hunt for illegal voters, devoting hundreds of federal agents to the task of poring over tens of thousands of voter ...

Big House theme: gerrymandering not yielding the gains GOP hoped. At this point, Rs would be very lucky to net 2/5 seats they targeted in TX & 2/4 in FL. Their biggest OH target, #OH09 Rep. Marcy ...

NYT: Senior leaders of the Justice Department, many of them veterans of President Trump’s legal and political wars over the past decade, share a singular, striking attribute: They have not admitted, ...

NYT: Two years ago, the government agency at the forefront of election security did what it had done for every federal election cycle since 2018. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

You can find the order at this link. The district court found that the U.S. did not have standing because it could not demonstrate that the court could grant any relief that would not violate voters’ ...

NYT: Local law enforcement and election officials are bracing for a tense Election Day as President Trump has kept up a sustained attack on the integrity of U.S. elections, including by offering a $1 ...

The Supreme Court, without even asking California and other defendants and intervenors to respond, rejected the Department of Justice’s unprecedented and unjustified demand that California segregate ...