Two weeks ago, we covered the For The People Act’s provision that would establish public financing for Congressional elections. This week’s newsletter will focus on the other major public financing provision contained within the bill — the one for presidential elections! …

This article is part of Equal Citizens’ Substack Series, “Dispatches on the For the People Act.” If you want these weekly updates delivered straight to your inbox, subscribe here! This week the two of us, Kevin Rissmiller and Kate Travis, will highlight the For The People Act’s mandates for same…

By Lawrence Lessig The first step has been taken. The hardest step is yet to come. Last night, the House passed (again) the historic H.R. 1. This massive democracy reform package — establishing an equal freedom to vote, blocking partisan gerrymandering, enacting public funding for congressional elections, to name just…

By Lawrence Lessig Yesterday, I awoke to the extraordinary news in Georgia — that Mitch McConnell would no longer be Senate Majority Leader. I crafted an email to celebrate, which we were holding for official confirmation of Jon Ossoff’s victory. Then the darkest images from America’s democracy began spreading across…

By Lawrence Lessig It’s all-but over. Monday, 306 officially appointed presidential electors cast electoral college votes for Joe Biden. As importantly, zero competing electors in key swing states cast votes for Donald Trump under the purported authority of their rogue state legislatures or governors. Though the President’s drumbeat of fraud…

by Michael L. Rosin Michael L. Rosin is a guest contributor and a constitutional historian. He is the author of amicus briefs in Equal Citizens’ previous Electors’ Freedom Litigation in Colorado and Washington. He can be reached at mlrosin@att.net. As Donald Trump spews distrust of “mail in” voting, it would…

By Evelyn Li The United States government is predicated on a system of checks and balances. But one such check appears nowhere in the Constitution and is the biggest hindrance to a productive federal government. The filibuster is a procedural rule in the Senate that allows senators to delay or…