You can read the filing at this link. This is highly unusual procedurally. Not only is the government not waiting on the First Circuit to rule on its stay request; it is not waiting for a (certainly ...

Justin here.  I’ve got a piece up in Lawfare on the Riverside search warrants for election materials now up before the California Supreme Court.  The piece starts off by explaining how much easier the ...

The opinion is here. I might have more to say about this in the coming days, but Missouri’s Secretary of State refused to put this referendum on the ballot based on an aggressive interpretation of the ...

Rick noted the government’s filing today in the USPS ballot case, trying to draw the Supreme Court back into the fight. I actually think this one may backfire: the government’s filing is so ...

I wrote yesterday about the Trump v. California application for a stay before the Supreme Court: “DOJ does not defend the upcoming rules on the merits, but instead says that the case is not yet ripe ...

Adam Liptak for the NYT: On about 40 mornings each year, the justices take their seats behind the Supreme Court’s majestic mahogany bench to hear oral arguments. Part interrogation of the lawyers ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday restored several pieces of a 2021 Texas election law that overhauled mail-in and assisted voting, overturning a lower court’s block on those ...

This is ridiculous and people should not panic over it. The President has no role to play in running elections, a points courts have repeatedly raised in challenges to his two executive orders on ...

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 ...

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 ...

After spending roughly six weeks analyzing Dominion voting systems used in Puerto Rico’s 2024 elections, Mojave Research came back to the Trump administration with findings that startled its ...