COVID-19

We are not very good at admitting past mistakes, especially on issues of race, and that has consequences.

When the CARES Act was signed into law in late March 2020, it looked to be an appropriately extraordinary legislative response befitting the extraordinary public health and economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The year 2020 will go down in U.S. history as a year of myriad unprecedented events that transformed American life.

The 2020 presidential election, possibly one of the most consequential in the nation’s history, now looks increasingly as though it will be held during an unprecedented pandemic.

In this fall’s election, we are almost certainly going to witness a dramatic increase in absentee or mail-in voting

In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has already provoked multiple election law disputes.

Putting aside the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, the case overextending the date for receipt of absentee ballots in the April 2020 Wisconsin primary, many (although not all) courts have done a fairly good job protecting voting rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a time when normal life has ground to a halt, it may be reassuring that one American tradition—suing over electoral rules—is still going strong.

It was only a matter of time before the Supreme Court would have to issue a decision on a church’s challenge to a state’s stay-at-home orders.

On Saturday, March 28, 2020, President Donald Trump floated the possibility of issuing a “quarantine” order for the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut because of their numerous COVID-19 cases.