Mail Ballots, Executive Orders, and the Courts
How executive action, fast-moving litigation, and institutional appointments are reshaping mail voting, and the legal traditions that push back.
Optimized for books about Understand the legal and democratic stakes of executive efforts to restrict mail voting and how voting-rights law responds..
Ballot BattlesEdward Foley, Edward B. FoleyEdward Foley’s Ballot Battles traces legal fights over ballots and recounts the history and mechanics of contested...Shelf signal: Elections & Campaigns
How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Daniel ZiblattHow Democracies Die explains the institutional pathways by which executive actions and partisan entrenchment degrade...Shelf signal: Comparative Politics
The Shadow DocketStephen VladeckThe Shadow Docket illuminates how courts and expedited judicial procedures can shape election rules swiftly, relevant...Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
Fools on the HillDana MilbankFools on the Hill examines how partisan control of legislatures and administrative posts can enable sweeping election...Shelf signal: Congress & Legislatures
PrequelRachel MaddowPrequel offers historical precedent on how institutions and public servants can resist authoritarian moves, giving...Shelf signal: 20th-Century America
Hiding in Plain SightSarah KendziorHiding in Plain Sight provides reporting on how administrative capture and conspiratorial networks have influenced...Shelf signal: Political Commentary