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One reason pundits' criticisms of professors lead to dysfunctional conversations is that pundits view the criticism as punching up and many professors view the criticism as punching down. I'll try

There sees to be basic confusion about goals here. Our goal shouldn't be "make sure each party wins sometimes." The goal is "pick the government based on free elections where

The authors of the Constitution did not intend SCOTUS to micromanage local election procedures so they could make it harder for the old and sick to vote. But SCOTUS just

Brief thoughts on Con Law that make my tweets this week (maybe) make more sense. I actually think originalism can be a very useful tool to address many but not

In her opening statement today, Amy Coney Barrett said her judicial philosophy was molded by and closest to Antonin Scalia, whose rulings were driven by his partisanship and using SCOTUS

Under pre-clearance, the Justice Dept approved every change in election procedures to make sure they weren't discriminatory. After Shelby County, with lots of new last minute shenanigans leading to emergency

With the final push of the fall campaign about to begin, now is a great time to buy our book about which news stories broke through to the public during

What Trump really appears to be doing is not postponing the election, but sabotaging the post office so mail votes aren't counted or are very slow to be counted. Then

Remember that almost all the "bad choices" dealing with COVID-19 are actually bad policy at the highest levels. Restaurants are open and primary schools can't open safely because we aren't

Models of aggregate election results should be treated very cautiously. But this leaves out:1) The most prominent U.S. models: "Time for Change" and "Bread and Peace" were first published in