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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… An important column, well worth reading as the NPVIC moves closer to passage in the requisite number of states; danger lurks here, and we need a broad national discussion of other methods of getting rid of the Electoral College. Jason Willick

And that champion of a constitutional amendment would, like Bayh, have to be strategically situated on the right Senate committees and sub-committees. Not impossible at all but requires some forethought.

Gracias

Glad to work with Tom Wolf and the Brennan Center on this piece that just appeared in Newsweek. newsweek.com/this-supreme-c…

Glad to have participated in this excellent series; we need to have more far more public discussion of methods to abolish or significantly reform the Electoral College. We can't let the difficulty of the challenge make us passive.

Brennan Center The council's 18 members include Holly Brewer Jonathan Gienapp Alex Keyssar Jane Manners Kate Masur Jack Rakove Gautham Rao Noah Rosenblum Rachel Shelden @JTuckerHistory Rosemarie Zagarri and more. To learn more about council members: brennancenter.org/historians-cou…

We have our work cut out for us. . ..

On the brief, historians Holly Brewer Rosemarie Zagarri Jack Rakove Jonathan Gienapp Jane Manners Gautham Rao Alex Keyssar Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms) Saul Cornell, Jane Calvert, David Konig, Jill Lepore, Peter Onuf, Michael Ross, and Alan Taylor. The lawyers: Friedman Kaplan LLP and Brennan Center.

This is a great piece, notably relying on the epic if somewhat Sisyphean work, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alex Keyssar . nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opi…

Why do we still have the electoral college? This is the question Alex Keyssar of Harvard Ash Center seeks to answer in his research. This conversation explores history to explain this question, but also considers the implications for future reform. democracyparadox.com/2024/05/07/ale…

A fine conversation with an exceptionally well informed interviewer!

Has there ever been a US president who complained that he could not do his job effectively because he feared criminal prosecution? Yet the Scotus majority believes the danger of that occurring outweighs the danger of allowing a chief executive to commit criminal acts. Weird.

The French elections offer food for thought for us in the U.S. Their two-round majoritarian system not only produced a different outcome than the first round; it generated extraordinary, energetic political mobilization and popular engagement between the two rounds. Hmmm.

In part, this is the test of the democratic (small-d) innovation skills of the DNC - can they craft a process that is legitimate, compelling, inclusive, participatory, and wise - to select the Democratic candidate - RCV? Citizen Assemblies? Public deliberation?

You are asking for alot, my good friend and colleague. If they can match half of those features, it will be remarkable -- and promising.

Enjoyable conversation about the Electoral College with Jake Suggs at American History Gazette. youtu.be/V--ioEI6eQg?si…

Given Trump's increasingly evident deterioration, shouldn't more attention be focused on the likelihood that a Trump victory would mean that JD Vance will soon become president? How scary is that?

Looking at exit polls and wondering if "non-college" is actually a good proxy for "working class." Anyone have any thoughts (or information!) on this?

.Alex Keyssar says the first few weeks of the Trump administration may constitute the most severe attack on the rule of law in the U.S. since the Civil War. Read more about Professor Keyssar's thoughts ➡️ ken.sc/41iwzxN