NOTUS: Every year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee designates a group of vulnerable Democrats as “Frontliners,” giving extra financial support to help them retain their seats.

Politico on Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA), who shares his thoughts on post-Callais redistricting moves that threaten as many as 19 CBC members: [S]ome Democrats believe the most effective way to combat the ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the House will attempt to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act “one more time” through a budget reconciliation bill. “The ...

Adam Liptak writes here of the Chief Justice’s “strategic” decision to assign Callais to Justice Alito, and to fail to explain how that case could be reconciled with Roberts’ earlier opinion in Allen ...

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 Supreme Court dramatically reshaped elections in recent months, sharply limiting a law that has been a cornerstone of minority voter empowerment, allowing states to gerrymander maps and loosening ...

Jonathan Martin in Politico Magazine collects and shares ideas on improving American democracy, including Danielle Allen’s suggestions for structural reform: She proposes an expansive suite of ...

WSJ: Trump wants the Boeing 747 jumbo jet [gifted by Qatari government] to eventually form the centerpiece of his planned presidential library in downtown Miami, similar to Ronald Reagan’s library ...

The very carefully written NYT profile of Alito that I linked to in an earlier post says this about a possible Alito retirement: At 76, Justice Alito is the second-oldest justice on the court. And ...

At first glance, the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 200 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia this week seems to be another stubborn assault on a fact that has refused to budge: Despite the ...

President Trump is trying to use the levers of the federal government, along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers, to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms and future ...