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The president pulled every lever to stay in power. Ultimately, it did not work. The United States must decide how it will handle the next election, especially if the outcome is closer. In the end, the coup did not take place. In the most grudging manner possible, Donald Trump signaled on November 23 that the transition of power could begin. That, a White House official told reporters, was as close as Trump will probably ever come to concession, but the machinery of transition has gathered momentum. Joe Biden’s incoming administration now has a government internet domain, is being briefed...

The 2020 election has been the most important of our lifetime, perhaps in the history of our country, and voter turnout reflected that sentiment. Despite the pandemic, hurricanes, wildfires, and voter suppression, people engaged in this sacred rite in record numbers. But beyond these forces, the biggest factor in determining the outcome of the presidential election is the Electoral College. This system has relegated recent elections into an exercise of mathematical gymnastics between two candidates to win a few battleground states. Is that what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they envisioned our democracy? Why did the delegates...

Immigrant rights defenders celebrated on December 4 after a federal judge delivered yet another blow to the Trump administration’s drawn-out effort to kill Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program that protects certain undocumented residents who were brought to the United States as children from deportation. Building on his November ruling that was similarly welcomed by right groups, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis of Brooklyn ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to post a public notice by December 7 that it is accepting new applications for DACA, which enables Dreamers to legally live and work...

Republicans — including Wisconsin Elections Commission member Dean Knudson, a former Republican legislator — continue to try and cast doubts on the Wisconsin presidential election results even after the Trump campaign’s recount added to Joe Biden’s winning margin. As expected, President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit disputing the election results on Tuesday morning with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, although state law dictates that such a suit be filed first in circuit court. The lawsuit claims that absentee votes cast in-person, during Wisconsin’s early voting window, are illegal, along with other categories of absentee ballots, including those cast in envelopes...