I'm honored to be thanked by Sen. Manchin, along with @derektmuller @Nedfoley @jacklgoldsmith and Brad Smith, Michael McConnell, and Bob Bauer, for our work on the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. @CassSunstein

I'm honored to contribute to the NYU Law School Democracy Project's "100 Ideas" series with this essay that ties Gilded Age polarization to the present.

Thanks to law and technology expert Kate Klonick @Klonick for this great discussion about how the communications revolution has transformed democracies

🟣 Idea #44 — New from @derektmuller - “America’s Recount Addiction” 💡 Part of @nyulaw’s Democracy Project "100 Ideas in 100 Days" series Read the full piece here👉

Center faculty affiliate and @UTexasLaw professor Joshua Sellers discusses #voterregistration, #voterID, and bridging #politicaldivides in this thought-provoking piece for @NYULawDemProjct. Read more at https://t.co/fPvcHSCKzI!

Introducing the next generation of YC founders. They’re avatars. 👀 Deadline to apply: Nov 10 @garrytan @saranormous @snowmaker @bosmeny @_ram_ @sdianahu @eladgil @sama @ballmatthew @GJarrosson @levie @eglyman @gokulr @terronk @skeptrune @lina_colucci @IbrahimAjami @hazhubble

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At the @NYULawDemProjct today, we have an essay from Brad Smith, @CommishSmith, who offers general skepticism about political reforms: " In fact, constant tinkering with the electoral system is harmful. Every change to voting and electoral rules has potential partisan

Bernie Sanders has always held the old union view of immigration:

With the major (alleged) sports gambling scandal breaking today, this is a reminder that Congress has the power to ban or regulate sports gambling. The modern era of sports gambling arose after a Supreme Court decision, Murphy v. NCAA, that struck down the then-existing federal

link to Adler's essay is here: https://t.co/HpTXnnYwgm

In a week of essays focused on election issues @NYULawDemProjct, today we feature an essay from @jadler1969 titled: Help Legislators Legislate Again, on how the campaign finance regime contributes to legislative dysfunction: ""The irony is stark: campaign finance rules designed

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To reflect on philanthropy and democracy today, a nice pairing with @JohnFabianWitt's book is David Stid's recent essay for @NYULawDemProjct. Stid, with deep experience in the philanthropic world, argues that too much of philanthropy today fuels polarization: "Across a range of

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"Leaving it at that, however, is also too simple. The sobering fact is that those faithful constitutionalists of the 1930s were not resisting presidential power on behalf of an advanced position on American democracy. At the heart of the coalition that defeated Roosevelt’s

"At the outset of his second term, that charismatic president, Franklin Roosevelt, opened a multi-front assault against constraints on his power. His challenge to the constitutional order featured a brazen plan to subordinate the judiciary to presidential will, a purge campaign

"Government and politics in the United States have come to epitomize a world-wide drift toward authoritarianism. How is it, then, that America resisted a similar slide in the 1930s? The simple answer, not without weight, is that America in the 1930s was led by a charismatic

Steve Skowronek, one of the country's leading scholars of the presidency, has a provocative essay today at @NYULawDemProjct comparing FDR and the present moment. A couple excerpts in this thread, link to follow:

At the @NYULawDemProjct, we've published essays today and yesterday on AI and democracy. One from @persily and from Lisa Manheim. See this link for the essays: https://t.co/4UpDi3ArIf

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