From the Washington Post. My own view is that this is a quintessential example of counting one’s chickens before they hatch–in this case, radioactive chickens that threaten a foundational democratic ...

I also have no idea whether there’s any merit in DOJ’s racial gerrymandering challenge to California’s redistricting via Prop. 50. Assessing those claims would require development of a full factual ...

What can be done? As I explained more fully in an August guest commentary in the New York Times, states, the courts, and ultimately the American people must serve as the bulwarks against. In this ...

In a decision this morning, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against the town of Newburgh, the defendant in an ongoing vote dilution case under the New York Voting Rights Act (NYVRA).

I have no view at this stage whether the majority is correct that six districts in Texas’s re-redistricting are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The dueling opinions are long; the issues are ...

The Washington Post has a fascinating, relatively short podcast exploring larger questions about where Black voters fit within the two-party system through a story about Blexit’s arrival at Howard ...

Blexit was co-founded by influencer Candace Owens to coax Black people away from the Democratic Party during Trump’s first term. Owens, however, stepped away from the movement since it merged with ...

My student Matthew Cooke and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: California Republicans, now joined by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, have sued California in federal ...

Yesterday, a three-judge district court preliminarily enjoined Texas’s mid-decade congressional redistricting map. This case will be promptly appealed to the Supreme Court, and it will be the first of ...

Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for ...

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 ...

In an unpublished per curiam opinion, the 11th Circuit affirmed the District Court’s dismissal with prejudice of Donald Trump’s defamation suit against Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN) based on the use ...