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It is with great sadness I share news of the passing of former U.S. Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson, who was a member of the Census Bureau family for over 30 years and played a critical role ...
Why not transform the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, which has sunk into obscurity, into the Election Security Fund? Public trust in elections is waning. The administration of our elections, ...
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales on Wednesday celebrated the state’s forthcoming student ID voting ban — just two days after he and other Hoosier election officials were named in a lawsuit ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sixth Edition of Laycock & Hasen, Modern American Remedies, will be published next month by Aspen publishers. In advance of the Supreme Court’s oral argument on May 15 about the propriety of ...
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 ...
Europe democracies’ staunch belief in a pluralistic democracy is evident in other ways. I recall interviewing the deputy mayor of Bonn, Germany, who told me about a remarkable institution known as ...
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 ...
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 ...
During President Trump’s first term, the idea that special interests and governments were buying meals and booking rooms at his hotels set off legal and ethical alarms about the potential for ...