The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But while the candidates may be the same, the circumstances surrounding this contest are vastly different from four years ago. In 2020, Trump was still operating within the broad confines of democratic norms, Read more…
On August 14, 2023 an article forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Law Review by William Baude of the University of Chicago Law School and Michael S. Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas School of Law became available as a preprint. The article argues that the third section of the Read more…
Robert B. Hubbell , November 14, 2022 The combination of the above factors fairly describes success not seen since FDR’s first midterm in 1934. Democrats will be able to confirm federal court judges with a simple majority. With 116 vacancies — and 62 lacking nominations, Democrats can make plenty of impact Read more…
By Jennifer Rubin, November 13, 2022, The Washington Post First, Democrats made major inroads into “the youth vote.” Turnout among voters under 30 was the highest in three decades. Pennsylvania race, 70 percent of voters between the ages 18 and 29 cast their ballots for Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, while Fetterman won support Read more…
An analysis based on an article by Will Wilkinson, The New York Times, 11/27/2020 and other sources. Trump won more votes than any incumbent president in American history despite his dereliction of responsibility at a time of a once-in-a-century health crisis and economic devastation. Why? The logic of partisan polarization. Read more…
INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide for Fixing Our Democracy https://indivisible.org/democracy-guide?akid=70164.1085402.g4-_RV&rd=1&t=7&utm_medium=button_20210108&utm_source=email For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats will control both chambers of Congress and the White House—a “trifecta.” We know it’s close, a 50/50 split governed by a power sharing agreement that will have to be hammered out early on, Read more…
There are a small number of influential people, including the president, who have repeatedly been instrumental in stoking misinformation about the election, excerpts from January 8, 2021 The New York Times article “Trump isn’t the only one” by Shira Ovide. Researchers have found that a small group of social media Read more…
On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional. By Neal K. Katyal and John Monsky, Dec. 29, 2020. President Trump recently tweeted that “the ‘Justice’ Department and FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Read more…
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future. By Erica Newland, Dec. 20, 2020, Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18. I was an attorney at Read more…
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times. Read more…