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Did They “Deliberately” Purloin Classified Documents, and Why?

Commentary
Joel Cohen
Jan 22, 2023, 2:00 PM

The public doesn’t yet know if the documents withheld from the National Archives by then-outgoing Vice President Biden somehow involved Hunter Biden or his mystifyingly controversial laptop. Nor do we know if the documents sent to Mar-a-Lago by former President Trump when his presidency ended involved his alleged plot to extort the Ukraine government into digging up dirt on Biden and his son, Hunter, to help Trump’s 2020 election bid.

Competing for Latino Voters in a Post-Redistricting Environment

Commentary
Mike Madrid & Lucas Holtz
Jan 19, 2022, 8:00 AM

The 2022 election demonstrated that both parties have an enormous challenge and opportunity when it comes to securing the support of Latinos—one of the most critical groups of persuadable swing voters in the country.

Issue No. 1

I Hope Tilden Was Right

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 1
Jerry H. Goldfeder

The Consent of the Governed

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 7
John D. Feerick

Making It Harder to Challenge Election Districting

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 13
Erwin Chemerinsky

Increasing Voter Investment in American Democracy: Proposals for Reform

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 18
Adam Drake

An Anniversary Best Uncelebrated: The 75th Year of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 35
Roy E. Brownell II & John Rogan

Updating Anderson-Burdick to Evaluate Partisan Election Manipulation

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 44
Andrew Vazquez

Taking History Seriously: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Reflections on Progressive Lawyering, and Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 59
Andrew G. Celli, Jr.

Depoliticizing the Supreme Court Through Term Limits: A Worthwhile Effort

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 78
Kara King

One Person, How Many Votes? Measuring Prison Malapportionment

1 Fordham Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 94
Ian Bollag-Miller

Events

The Voting Rights and Democracy Project in Washington D.C., in November 2022 with U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, Stacey Grigsby, Deputy White House Counsel, and Shelley Greenspan, White House Policy Advisor for Partnerships and Global Engagement