While the mail ballot fight holds the spotlight, a second emergency application about your right to vote is sitting at the Supreme Court, and it may be the more consequential one. On Tuesday, September 8, the Justice Department asked the justices to lift a lower court...
The Missouri map war ended Thursday, in the right order and just barely. In the morning, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the federal court order that had briefly revived the state’s Trump-backed congressional gerrymander, effectively throwing the map out for...
Missouri does not currently know what its congressional districts are. That is not a rhetorical flourish; it is the literal legal situation 54 days before the election, produced by one of the strangest afternoons in modern election law. On Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m.,...
At one minute past midnight on Tuesday, Canada’s retaliation went into effect: tariffs of 15 to 50 percent on 27.6 billion Canadian dollars’ worth of American goods, covering hundreds of product lines from milk and cheese to steel, furniture, appliances,...
The mail voting fight we have tracked for three months reached its most decisive ruling on Friday evening, and its most telling response by Sunday. In a 49 page decision, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Postal...
Labor Day is the one holiday with a thesis: that the people who do the work deserve a share of what the work produces. So today, instead of speeches, this newsletter offers a ledger. Every number below is from federal data or named researchers, most of it published in...
