Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, a Democrat, was censured by his own party on Wednesday night over his decision to free Tina Peters, a high-profile election denier and supporter of President Trump who ...

NYT: Soon after the 2020 presidential race, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, was given a “Democracy Action Hero” award by Arnold Schwarzenegger for standing up to President ...

Read this entire news analysis to put things in perspective. There’s been nothing like this in U.S. history It is hard to imagine that any previous president would have thought he could engage in such ...

When that project began, Republicans already enjoyed a decisive advantage on the congressional battlefield. Heading into the 2024 elections, they’d drawn 42% of all districts nationwide, while ...

In January, on a flight to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago, President Trump mused about his $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. “I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself,” he said. Mr. Trump ...

Leslie Winner in the Washington Spectator: I am the North Carolina lawyer who served as lead counsel for the Black citizens whose lawsuit led to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Thornburg v.

The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court last December permitted Texas to move ahead with a new voting map beneficial to Republicans, as the justices faulted a lower court for issuing an order ...

A U.S. citizen was found not guilty Tuesday of illegally voting in the 2018 election when she was a lawful permanent resident of the United States. A guilty verdict would have led to up to 18 months ...

Today, the League of Women Voters of Colorado and two individual voters filed a federal lawsuit against HB 25-1315, a state law passed in May 2025 that provides for one-party elections to fill state ...

I am pleased to welcome Zachary Albert and Ray La Raja to ELB Book Corner. They are the authors of the new book, Small Donors in US Politics: Myth and Reality. (ELB readers can get a 30 percent ...

The Justice Department has granted President Trump, his family and businesses immunity from ongoing inquiries into their taxes, a potentially lucrative arrangement that could shield the president from ...

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 ...