"By declining to pardon his son, Biden is simply adhering to the Framers' and the Constitution's intended scope of the pardon power, which does not include its use for attending to one's private interests," write Grant Tudor & Amanda Carpenter for @newsweek newsweek.com/pardoning-hunt…

Our new issue, WE NEED MORE PARTIES, traces the root of our democratic dysfunction to our two-party system. Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 leads a forum with Danielle Allen Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺 Doran Schrantz Daniel Schlozman Sam Rosenfeld Tabatha Abu El-Haj Deepak Bhargava cerin Grant Tudor & others bostonreview.net/memberships/

If we want a multiparty America, we'll need to amend an arcane law that functionally prevents it. New from my colleague cerin & me in Boston Review ⬇️

Protect Democracy’s Grant Tudor & cerin joined Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺 Danielle Allen and others in "The Case for More Parties," a forum by Boston Review. Read the full forum ⬇️

This Boston Review forum w/ Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛, Danielle Allen, Deepak Bhargava, Josh Lerner, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Grant Tudor,Ian Shapiro & more, bostonreview.net/forum/the-case…

Interestingly enough, fusion voting was arguably the most successful ballot mechanism in U.S. history that supported the development of minor parties. Learn more from Grant Tudor and cerin of Protect Democracy: bostonreview.net/forum_response…

"The threats against Deloitte preview an escalation—a harbinger of how a Trump second term would use a far more expansive array of federal levers to bring sources of dissent to heel," warn our Grant Tudor & Daniella BallouAares of Leadership Now fastcompany.com/91220031/conce…

Trump allies are threatening to pull federal contracts from firms that don't take political orders from him if reelected, like policing employees' private speech. Daniella BallouAares & I on why appeasement is a bad bet for business. ⬇️

This Protect Democracy report critically examines U.S #democracy and our ascent towards authoritarianism, fascism, and extremism. Grant Tudor recommends election reforms like #fusionvoting to "give the pro-democracy coalition a fighting chance." Learn more: protectdemocracy.org/work/advantagi…

Blanket pardons for January 6 would be a gross inversion of the Framers' intended use of the power. I shared w/ The Washington Post why pardons for insurrectionists are not new—they've just always had the opposite of Trump's intentions in mind. washingtonpost.com/elections/2024…

This reporting from The New York Times that "Presidents have unchecked authority to issue pardons" is simply not true. For an accounting of the many constraints on the pardon power, including those enumerated by federal courts, see this Protect Democracy report: protectdemocracy.org/work/checking-…

Pardoning Hunter Biden doesn’t advance public interest as the Framers intended. And when taken together with Trump’s abuses, makes an urgent case for reform, write @G_Tudor and @AmandaCarpenter: ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-pardon-p…

Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 Our own Grant Tudor & Beau Tremitiere wrote a deep dive of the situation in Massachusetts featured in Wegman and Drutman’s piece — Our winner-take-all electoral system is “dangerously warping our politics.” democracyjournal.org/magazine/70/wh…

Mussolini, Pinochet, Fujimori, Mugabe, Orbán, Erdoğan, and a certain German. Pardoning loyalists who committed violence on his behalf would put Trump — and America — in ominous company. Grant Tudor on our authoritarian predecessors, in The Bulwark. lnk.thebulwark.com/4g1RVF1

Pardons for January 6th would mark the first time in U.S. history that the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Globally, though, this brand of clemency is not original. New from Grant Tudor: thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-fo…

From Mussolini to Mugabe to Erdoğan, authoritarians have often pardoned violent supporters. Our own Grant Tudor examines the consequences of January 6 pardons for those with paramilitary ties in The Bulwark thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-fo…

"The relationship between authoritarians and paramilitary organizations is dynamic....as Mussolini and the squadristi helped each other to amass power, their political futures became interdependent." An example from history, from Grant Tudor: thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-fo…

"These pardons will license future lawbreaking, including violence," Grant Tudor told Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne, and Andrew Goudsward for Reuters.