After President Trump and many other Republicans warned that vast numbers of non-U.S. citizens would influence last year’s election, states and law enforcement have devoted more resources than ever ...

Texas GOP lawmakers released their first draft of the state’s new congressional map Wednesday, proposing revamped district lines that attempt to flip five Democratic seats in next year’s midterm ...

Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service reinterpreted the ban, known as the Johnson Amendment, saying for the first time that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit. The change, ...

Ellen Katz has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the Texas Governor and Attorney General that claims four Texas congressional districts ...

The potential contours of a snap California redistrict are coming into focus (more on the politics of that exercise below). Attorney General Rob Bonta suggested yesterday that lawmakers could put a ...

Three Republican members of the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued the April order that blocked a lower court ruling favoring Democratic Gov. Josh Stein in a dispute over state elections board ...

The ACLU, the League of Women Voters, and other groups have filed an amicus brief in support of the standing claim raised by candidate for Congress Michael Bost in Bost v. Illinois State Bd of ...

They disagree on the merits of Bost’s position, but this filing at the Supreme Court supporting standing for Rep. Bost is still notable. See also this interesting amicus brief from Professor Michael ...

The U.S. (DOJ) has said it intends to contact all 50 states about their compliance with federal voting law, a national association of state election officials told Democracy Docket. “As states ...

The Department of Justice has asked several large California counties to provide detailed personal information of non-citizens who got on to the state voter rolls, an unusual request that comes as the ...

NYT: The conservative group Project Veritas this week dropped its yearslong libel lawsuit against The New York Times. The lawsuit accused The Times of defamation for an article published in 2020 that ...

This is from the WSJ, which is paywalled. To put this in a broader perspective, the combined “favorability” of both parties ...