As Democrats prepare to contend with the coming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are co-chairing a new coalition called Governors Safeguarding Democracy. While the initiative’s website describes it as “a nonpartisan alliance of governors” aiming to bolster “American democracy,” both co-chairs are Democrats. “There’s been outreach to Republican governors,” Pritzker said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Good conversations, I...

Theodore Olson, the former conservative lawyer who argued the 2000 Florida vote-recount case on behalf of President George W. Bush, has died at the age of 84, his firm announced Wednesday.  There was no immediate cause of death given for the former solicitor general, who is also remembered for teaming up with David Boies – his opponent in Bush v. Gore – to help overturn California’s Proposition 8 banning...