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David Shor, Data Analyst for Democrats, with Current and 2022 Posts on Gerrymandering v. Other Voting Issues
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to ...
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“Inside Democrats’ risky gambit to ‘fight fire with fire’ over election maps”
Their exodus, coordinated with top Democrats outside Texas, is the latest flash point in a rapidly spreading fight over election maps — embodying Democrats’ newly combative posture on. After Texas ...
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“In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails”
New York Times. Developments in recent weeks signaled that some members of the court think there is more work to be done in removing legal guardrails governing elections. There are now signs that ...
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Looking back at 2021-2022
In light of Rick P’s post about David Shor’s current lament about the failure of Congress to redress gerrymandering back when Democrats were consumed by their efforts to enact the massive S1/HR1 ...
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“Seattle Voters Are Renewing Their Unique Approach to Public Campaign Financing”
Seattle is poised to continue its experiment in public campaign financing. Voters on Tuesday appear to have renewed the city’s democracy vouchers program, which provides each adult Seattle resident ...
Opinion
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Justice Sotomayor Appears to Say That Term Limits for the Court Would be Unconstitutional, Even if Done by Constitutional Amendment
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 ...
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The Alternative Paths to Redistricting Reform the Court Pointed to in Common Cause v. Rucho are Unraveling
In Common Cause v. Rucho, Chief Justice Roberts pointed to the significant reforms to redistricting that had been taking ...
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I Spoke with Jen Rubin of “The Contrarian” on Courts Chipping Away at the Voting Rights Act, and the Supreme Court Perhaps Killing Off Section 2
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 ...
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“Michigan Court of Appeals tosses GOP election lawsuit for filing too late”
The Michigan Court of Appeals has tossed out a Republican lawsuit challenging Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s official guidance for many overseas voters. The lawsuit filed by the ...
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Is the Current House Biased Toward Democrats?
According to some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the answer is yes. Earlier this year, Nick Stephanopoulos, ...
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“Trump may be off the hook for his 2020 election plot, but his allies aren’t”
Politico: Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 largely shattered the efforts to prosecute him for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. But dozens of his allies still face state-level criminal charges ...
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“It’s been 60 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed. Will it make it to 61?”
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 … ...