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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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….

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 ...

A video of Hungarian soldiers going off to fight in Ukraine and returning home in caskets is just one of many AI-generated posts that have appeared on Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s social media ...

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.

I have written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court ...

NYT: More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them ...