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Fix the Court posts an audio recording of Justice Sotomayor speaking at an interview at the University of Zurich in July of 2024. Apparently, Fix the Court just obtained this recording recently. A ...
In Common Cause v. Rucho, Chief Justice Roberts pointed to the significant reforms to redistricting that had been taking ...
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it reaches its 61st anniversary next year is a big question. The landmark piece of legislation … ...
Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation (forthcoming 2025), draft available, The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law ...
Yesterday, the three-judge district court in the Alabama congressional redistricting litigation declined to bail-in the State to the VRA’s preclearance regime. You can find the district court’s ...
I did this Q&A with Harvard Law Today about mid-decade re-redistricting, the reargument in Callais, and other redistricting issues. Here are some excerpts: Redrawing districts for partisan purposes at ...
According to some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the answer is yes. Earlier this year, Nick Stephanopoulos, ...
Texas Republicans plan to ramp up the pressure Friday on Democratic state lawmakers who fled to suburban Chicago and other Democratic areas this week to prevent the GOP from giving themselves five ...
I’ve written about two big election stories this week, the newly ignited redistricting wars starting in Texas and the Supreme Court’s strong signal that it could kill off the Section 2 by next June.
Politico: Alabama must use independently drawn congressional maps that created a second Black-majority district more favorable to Democrats in the state for the rest of the decade, a federal court ...
NPR: With preparations for the 2030 census already underway, President Trump said Thursday he has instructed his administration to start work on a “new” census. According to a social media post by ...