NYT: The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration. “ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a ...

Imagine that a state’s statute (or constitution) required a photo ID to vote, but only in certain counties that had a history of consistently voting for Democrats by wide margins. Everyone … Continue ...

I have posted this draft for an upcoming conference on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The collapse of campaign finance ...

NYT: The lone Republican vote in the Senate last month to protect consumers from bank overdraft fees came from an unlikely Democratic ally: Senator Josh Hawley, the archconservative from Missouri best ...

The Griffin lawsuit has ping-ponged between state and federal courts for nearly six months and is currently pending in federal court. Ultimately, this case could endure all the way to the U.S. Supreme ...

Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active ...

Voting means (swimming) costume party It has become a tradition – especially in surfing communities – to vote in their swimwear. Here is a young lady voting in “Surfers Paradise”. Yes, that is the ...

Politico: A new club is coming to Washington — and you probably can’t get in. Donald Trump Jr., megadonor Omeed Malik and several other investors are launching an invite-only club that costs more than ...

Independent: A Washington state Democrat came under fire during a town hall after backing a bill that would require voters to prove their citizenship when casting a ballot. On Thursday, U.S.

NOTUS: The Federal Election Commission will soon lose its powers to enforce and regulate campaign finance laws, NOTUS has learned. This de facto FEC shutdown will be triggered when Republican ...

The 120-page opinion is here. The order is here. The preliminary injunction in LULAC v. Executive Office of the President was issued by Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District ...

It was a Sunday in late October 2024 when Jesus Rodriguez, then 29, voted for the first time. He voted in person for the presidential and state races, but his polling place wasn’t at a church, school ...