Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.