As ELB readers are aware, President Donald Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others accused of election misconduct in the 2020 presidential election, especially surrounding disputes about slates of ...

AP: Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials ...

New polling from NPR/Marist aligns with much of what we are seeing in other polling: Trump’s approval rating is now below 40% and Democrats appear to have an edge in the midterm. But what is more ...

Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker at the Atlantic have published an article detailing Trump’s extraordinary and unprecedented fundraising efforts since his win in 2024. Much of the effort is directed ...

This week the Washington Post reported that the ultimately successful effort to release the Epstein files started many months ago with a text exchange between Representatives Thomas Massie (Rep.) and ...

WSJ: When Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s top civil-rights attorney, sent a letter this summer telling Texas officials that their congressional map was unconstitutional, it set off a ...

NC Newsline’s the Pulse reports on oral arguments yesterday before a federal three-judge panel in Winston-Salem, NC, with respect to the NAACP and Common Cause’s challenge to the newly drawn ...

Rick Pildes has a characteristically thoughtful post responding to my Slate piece with Matthew Cooke arguing that when the three-judge court assesses whether California voters approved a racial ...

Washington Post offers a long profile and striking charts along with a second article that maps who the top 20 most politically influential billionaires are. The thesis and argument are short and ...

I also have no idea whether there’s any merit in DOJ’s racial gerrymandering challenge to California’s redistricting via Prop. 50. Assessing those claims would require development of a full factual ...

Nate Cohn for the Tilt at the N.Y. Times focuses on the “series of setbacks for the G.O.P. [that] leave[] an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year’s redistricting wars. ” . . .

My student Matthew Cooke and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: California Republicans, now joined by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, have sued California in federal ...