Andrew Albright has published this student note in the California Law Review. Here is the abstract: This Note explores the idea of paying Americans to cast their ballots as a mechanism to increase ...

Rick Pildes covered the exciting news that Heather Gerken is going to head the Ford Foundation, after a successful stint as Yale Law School dean. And even better, as the NYT headline puts it, Ford ...

Florida State University’s Election Law Center now has a place in state statute, even if it didn’t receive full funding. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation (SB 892) formally establishing the ...

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Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...

An initial big question here is whether enough credible candidates will be willing to run under this party label. Especially since Musk has tried to define in advance the major policy positions of the ...

Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked “deeply disturbing” attacks on the American justice ...

The NYT has a conversation between Kate Shaw, Will Baude, and Steve Vladek discussing the end of the Supreme Court’s Term. Baude gives the Court an A-, Shaw a C-, and Vladek says incomplete. Along the ...

Several provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections have run into obstacles in court. But others are quietly moving ahead, at least for now, with big potential implications for ...

From Politico, a report on another James Fishkin deliberative experiments, this one centered on Pennsylvania: Voters in one of the most divided states in the country moved closer together on ...

While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental,social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal askingfor increased transparency around corporate ...