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 ...

Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I spoke to CNN about Texas and Mid-Decade Redistricting @RedistrictNet @CNN pic.twitter.com/zTk1aqb3vs ...

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 ...

Ansley Skipper and Drew Penrose write about the obvious solution to gerrymandering: proportional representation. Most modern democracies don’t have legislative districts represented by only one ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...