NYT: Soon after the 2020 presidential race, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, was given a “Democracy Action Hero” award by Arnold Schwarzenegger for standing up to President ...
Rick H. blogged about the remands in a pair of Section 2 cases. I find myself inclined toward the view that remand was appropriate, for two reasons. First, both cases had district courts that found an ...
Weaponization fund in fact rewards those who tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States on January 6, 2021 and creates incentives and gives resources should they wish to try ...
Justice Jackson dissented from the order, on the sensible grounds that Callais did not consider the right to sue question. Of course the stakes are much lower now that Section 2 is essentially dead no ...
If the Supreme Court had announced its decision to narrow the Voting Rights Act a few weeks earlier, states could have prepared, rolling out new maps before candidates were registered and votes were ...
Nate Cohn and Eve Washington wrote this New York Times piece arguing that race-blind (and party-blind) redistricting in the South would produce about as many minority-opportunity districts as existed ...
F.B.I. agents on Wednesday searched the business office of a powerful Democratic state legislator in Virginia who had played a key role in a high-stakes congressional redistricting fight. The ...
In Wednesday’s order, U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Boulee wrote that, “The seizure in this case was certainly not perfect.” “The events leading up to this case are, in a variety of ways, ...
For the Roberts court, however, these districts are little more than a “racial entitlement,” to borrow a phrase from Justice Antonin Scalia. In the court’s view, you may have the right to vote, but ...
In Callais, the Court changed the framework for Section 2 racial vote dilution claims in ways that make these suits effectively impossible to win. But did the Court also surreptitiously change the law ...
President Donald Trump flexed his grip on the GOP base in Indiana on Tuesday, vanquishing a majority of the Republican state senators who had dared cross him on redistricting. It was a show of force ...
Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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