NYT: President Trump has pardoned an imprisoned former Tennessee state senator who was two weeks into a 21-month sentence for his role in a campaign finance fraud scheme. Inmate records show that the ...

Behl, has been placed on paid administrative leave ahead of the April 1 spring general election. In an email sent to some election workers Wednesday morning, a worker at the clerk’s office described ...

Politico: President Donald Trump’s retaliation against a prominent Democratic-linked law firm is likely unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell blocked the ...

Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61 Anita S. Krishnakumar, Cracking the Whole Code Rule (February 19, 2020). St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-0002, New York University Law ...

Colorado is asking a federal judge in Denver to reject the U.S. Justice Department’s statement of interest in the case of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. In its filing, the state writes that the ...

Julie Cohen has posted this important draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Theoretical accounts of power in networked digital environments typically do not give systematic attention to the phenomenon ...

In a recent article, Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die, predicts that “U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump ...

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Daniel Magleby and Michael D. McDonald have written this draft for ELJ. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court has turned over efforts to limit gerrymanders to politics and willing state courts.

A new report warns of “profound risks” in American politics as cryptocurrency companies increase their political spending and Donald Trump oversees regulatory retreatwhile promising to create a ...

New paper in Science Advances from Shiro Kuriwaki, Jeff Lewis,, and Michael Morse. Abstract: After an election, should election officials release a copy of each anonymous ballot? Some policy-makers ...