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 ...

As I explained back in August, the Supreme Court reached and and in the most opaque way on a late Friday afternoon in mid-summer, the Court turned a ho-hum racial gerrymandering case where the court ...

This is a big week for voting rights oral arguments. Yesterday, before the New York Court of Appeals, I argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in Clarke v. Town of Newburgh, a challenge to the town’s ...

American democracy may be under attack, but billionaire mega-donors are fully engaged in protecting their own interests. And as we head into what will undoubtedly be another multibillion-dollar ...

Sparked by Nick Stephanopolous’s amicus brief, there’s been discussion on this blog about Section 2’s limits and how that might impact tomorrow’s re-argument in Callais. To help readers understand the ...

In New Jersey, a new political party called the Moderate Party is challenging the state’s ban on fusion voting. The New Jersey Supreme Court is currently considering whether to hear this challenge.

Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S. House district map, taking up President Donald Trump’s call to secure more GOP seats nationwide ...

SCOTUSblog: Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s memoir, Life, Law and Liberty, comes out today, Oct. 14…. Throughout his time on the court, Kennedy wrote some of its most important cases. In the book he ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

Just in time for this week’s reargument of Louisiana v. Callais, I’ve posted to SSRN a draft of my latest Article, False Conflict: Colorblindness and Section Two of the Voting Rights … Continue readin ...

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hold a rare re-argument in Louisiana v. Callais on whether Section 2 of the VRA is unconstitutional as applied to redistricting. I’ve filed an amicus brief arguing ...

NYT: …Election law experts, civil rights groups and politicians are watching Wednesday’s case closely because of the immediate, enormous impact it could have on local, state and federal districts….