The Impoundment Act of 1974 was passed with strong bipartisan support in the pre-polarization era. It was designed to reassert congressional control over the budget, while ac acknowledging there might ...

PBS reports on the decision rejecting a challenge to the DeSantis-backed plan, which eliminated a majority-Black district in northern Florida. Here’s the opening paragraph of today’s majority opinion ...

NYT: “The British government said on Thursday that it would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, in what it called a landmark moment for democracy and some of its opponents decried as an attempt to ...

You can watch on Youtube. A fascinating and deep discussion: ...

NYT on the shadow docket, of which election law cases — especially those involving the Purcell doctrine — have been prominent components over the years. The article begins: “In clearing the way for ...

Washington Post reports on yesterday’s administrative stay in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe: Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on Wednesday paused a federal appeals court ...

Bolts: Wyoming became the second state to require that all would-be voters provide physical documentation of their citizenship to vote in any election, as conservatives step up their nationwide push ...

NYT: President Trump’s embattled interim U.S. attorney in Albany, N.Y., is back leading the office under an unusual new title, just days after a panel of judges refused to appoint him to lead the ...

One of the bags of uncounted ballots from Madison’s 2024 presidential election was inadvertently stored in a county-owned building that was left unsecured at times and that was used at one point by an ...

This piece comments on the new lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s congressional map on the ground that it’s an anti-competitive (not a partisan) gerrymander that artificially suppresses competition in ...

My latest article, recently published in the Alabama Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Does the Constitution protect individual voters’ freedom to cast their votes for racially discriminatory reasons?

Under President Donald Trump, DHS upgraded its Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, integrating data from the Social Security Administration and making the database available to ...