Election and Voting Law, Federalism, Local Government
January 17, 2019
American politics features two political parties that cannot agree on much of anything. On the biggest and the smallest of issues, what candidates and officials from the parties do and what they say increasingly diverge. But there is an exception: left and right, coastal or flyover, first-time candidate or long-time incumbent, almost all candidates for…
Election and Voting Law, Federalism, Local Government
January 8, 2019
The lines between national politics and state or local politics, always blurred and squiggled, continue to evaporate. Just look at the recent “blue wave” midterm elections, in which a fierce backlash to Donald Trump carried hundreds of Democrats into state and local offices. In Texas, for example, the wave transformed courts across the state and…
November 20, 2018
The most salient national recounts of 2018 are now over. That does not mean it’s time to relax. Over the past two weeks, Florida has once again been recount central. And it has been impossible to escape the looming omnipresence of the ghosts of the 2000 election. Bush v. Gore, synecdoche for the problems with…
November 13, 2018
Now that Democrats have captured the House, a wide array of policy reforms are suddenly feasible. These reforms won’t become law, of course, since Republicans continue to control the Senate and the Presidency. But the House can still pass them—and thus lay down markers for a future Democratic Congress and show the American public the…
Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Law
November 8, 2018
In early October, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming new report on the impact climate change will have on the planet by 2040. These new findings, reviewed by ninety-one international scientists, are worrisome because it now seems that disaster is possible with an even smaller increase in global temperatures than previously…
Election and Voting Law, First Amendment
November 5, 2018
Campaign finance law is as much a product of the U.S. Supreme Court as of Congress. For more than four decades, the Court has actively superintended campaign finance regulation through its interpretation of the First Amendment. The ultimate consequence of the Court’s free speech decisions is to enhance the voice of the wealthy while stifling…
Josh Blackman is an Associate Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection…
Jack Beermann has been on the faculty of Boston University School of Law since 1984. Professor Beermann received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and received…
Kristine Lucius is executive vice president for policy at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and previously served as Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on the…
