by Timmy Lee | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
On June 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court gave its ruling on two significant cases called Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause. The reason why I am linking these two Supreme Court cases together is that they share two similarities: they revolve around the issue of...
by Atman Mehta | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
Despite not having grown up in the US, for virtually all my life I’ve heard about the robustness of American democracy, including – especially – the strength of its judiciary. Given those childhood...
by Marissa Linn | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made certain democracies stable and others unstable. He argued that two factors determine the stability of a democracy: their...
by Maggie Habib | Oct 22, 2020 | University of Chicago
On Monday, the Supreme Court split four to four in a decision on whether Pennsylvania absentee ballots received up to three days after election day could be counted, allowing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s earlier affirmative ruling to stand. The...
by Patrick Connor | Oct 22, 2020 | Brown University
One month before Election Day, Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued two executive orders altering the newfound role of Texas as a swing state in the 2020 federal elections. First, he restricted mail-in ballot drop off locations to one per each of the 254 counties in...
