Former Jan. 6 defendants are the new draw at local Republican fundraisers, helping to fill seats at normally sleepy events while getting a platform to tell their version of the Capitol riot. … ...

Dan Balz in the Washington Post, on Musk’s stated interest in starting a new party: What could make Musk’s effort different from past attempts? The obvious answer is money. He’s the world’s richest ...

Politico, with a story that probably will not surprise people who follow money in politics: A leader of the super PAC supporting New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopes to raise upwards of $10 million ...

Votebeat has this piece on the alleged voting irregularities, which Charles Stewart debunks: The case against Rockland County, New York, claims that there were irregularities in the county’s vote ...

CBS news reports here that Emil Bove, the current Deputy Attorney General and President Trump’s nominee to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, has “declined to rule out the possibility of the ...

A group of plaintiffs in a case challenging the State’s redistricting map have asked the trial court to reopen testimony in the case in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to call a ...

A panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction against a Maine ballot initiative that prohibited “foreign governments and ‘foreign ...

The Brennan Center has conducted this analysis, concluding that at least $1.9 billion was spent on online ads in the 2024 election. From the report: Political advertisers spent $1.9 billion on online ...

Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Michael Gates, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, have sent this letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Ken ...

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 ...

Yunior Rivas with the Democracy Docket has the story here. From Yunior’s write-up: In a case where the 8th Circuit has severely weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), Native American voters in North ...

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 ...