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

From today's @nytimes @charlie_savage: "Trump administration has filed a lawsuit pre-emptively challenging the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican candidate narrowly loses. But election law specialists said the litigation lacked any legitimate legal basis. “It is one of the weakest election lawsuits I’ve ever seen,” said Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor who specializes in election issues. “It should have no realistic chance of success in the courts.” nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/al…

A great contribution to the series -- thoughtful, deeply informed as always:

Look forward to doing this in-person event later today with Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff, from Humboldt University in Berlin:

Here's the gratuitous line from the oral argument I'm referring to: "MR. CLEMENT: I mean, I think it's hard to watch a lot of embarrassing videos on 247Sports based on my perusal of it. But, like, you know, I don't know, maybe, like, watching, you know, Chicago Bears films is embarrassing in certain parts of the country. I don't know. Maybe it is embarrassing."

If you think the Bears-Packers rivalry is not one of the great ones in sport, listen to Paul Clement going out of his way to take a dig at the Bears in a Supreme Court argument yesterday. Paul is from Wisconsin and a Packers fan. Not sure how many in the audience picked up on this, but us Bear fans certainly did: xitter.cf/cspan/status/211040855… @WilliamBaude @RachelBarkow

Sophisticated and nuanced assessment of Justice Alito, tied to the release of Alito's book: