The Court did not decide Louisiana v. Callais today. The case involves a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional maps. In 2023, after a federal court found Louisiana had violated Section 2 of the ...

Politico “With the latest gift, Bloomberg is now single-handedly responsible for one-third of the PAC’s total haul of $24 million since it launched in March, according to a POLITICO analysis. Other ...

One Possible Explanation for Judge Merchan’s Last-Minute Decision to Sentence Trump , Slate, Jan. 3, 2025 (with Jeremy Stahl) Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks ...

I am pleased to welcome Ciara Torres-Spelliscy to the ELB Book Corner, writing about her new book Corporatocracy. This is the ...

We use crowd-sourced assessments from X’s Community Notes program to examine whether there are partisan differences in the sharing of misleading information. Unlike previous studies, misleadingness ...

Politico In yet another cynical move, Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in NYC’s November mayoral race (rather than as a Democrat), is now seeking to run on two additional ballot lines: ...

Bloomberg X challenges the constitutionality of New York law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech, extremism, and disinformation. Similar to the California law ...

Bloomberg “The New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a challenge to municipal political district drawing, short-circuiting litigation that could have led to a wave of redistricting lawsuits across the ...

The Washington Post offers a lengthy treatment of issues and includes text from group chats among concerned lawmakers. “State lawmakers — who tend to be far more accessible than their federal ...

Bloomberg “All five of the nominees to appellate and district courts wrote in response to the question submitted by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, that ...

I am pleased to welcome Ciara Torres-Spelliscy to the ELB Book Corner, writing about her new book Corporatocracy. This is the ...

Bruce Mehlman, at Mehlman Consulting, has put together this data showing a dramatic shift that takes place in the late ...