After the 2020 Census, Texas Republicans drew lines to protect incumbents instead of maximizing their chances of gaining more seats. In establishing new lines this year, they could give themselves ...

NYT: Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that the Supreme Court was shortchanging the public and lower court judges by failing to explain its reasoning in rulings on cases that come before the court on ...

President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed. But Mr. Trump doesn’t deserve this ...

New report by Derek Tisler of Brennan Center & Chris McIsaac of R Street Institute: Election resiliency is about making sure that attacks and other disruptive incidents do not impede voters from ...

Politico quotes her as saying this, in response to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas and Ohio: “All’s fair in love and war. We’re following the rules. We do redistricting every 10 years. . . .

Just weeks after the Trump administration pulled off the dismissal of corrupt fundraising charges against Mayor Eric Adams, it appears that his reelection campaign was at it again . . . . The Adams ...

I’m sure this AP story will come as a real shocker to ELB readers.

Politico: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, fresh off a win at the state Supreme Court over a congressional map he pushed through three years ago, said Thursday the state should consider overhauling its ...

Kyle Kondik’s analysis at the Sabato’s Crystal Ball. Key points: — President Trump pushing Texas Republicans to squeeze more seats out of the Lone Star State has led to the possibility of other states ...

This WSJ article confirms what I have been saying for a while now (see also here), that small donors tend to fuel the more ideological wings of the parties. That’s all the more true for out of state ...

Votebeat: The U.S. Justice Department is asking Michigan for a copy of its voter rolls and information about how the state maintains them, as well as a series of questions about its high levels of. In ...

Since Rucho, it’s been generally assumed that attempting to litigate against partisan gerrymanders in federal court is an utter nonstarter. I think this is largely correct, but it light of all the ...