Nate Cohn for the Tilt at the N.Y. Times focuses on the “series of setbacks for the G.O.P. [that] leave[] an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year’s redistricting wars. ” . . .
Rick Pildes has a characteristically thoughtful post responding to my Slate piece with Matthew Cooke arguing that when the three-judge court assesses whether California voters approved a racial ...
New article from Bolts Magazine reporting on what the likely demise of the Act could mean for local governments — specifically in the context of a battle for Black voting power in a rural county in ...
Washington Post offers a long profile and striking charts along with a second article that maps who the top 20 most politically influential billionaires are. The thesis and argument are short and ...
NC Newsline’s the Pulse reports on oral arguments yesterday before a federal three-judge panel in Winston-Salem, NC, with respect to the NAACP and Common Cause’s challenge to the newly drawn ...
Montana Supreme Court, over two dissents, sided with Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts, finding that the Montana Attorney General “went too far in editing ballot language for an initiative calling for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).