This is the first Supreme Court term since 2003 (when I began blogging)  in which there was no election law case on the Supreme Court’s docket.  (For reasons on the decline of the Court’s election law docket, see here.)  Now we have the high-profile, and uncertain, Texas redistricting case, being fast-tracked for argument at the beginning of January.

Further, we may hear as early as Monday if the Court will hear the Bluman foreign campaign spending case.  I expect we will also soon have cases dealing with (what I expect will be) DOJ’s failure to preclear South Carolina and Texas’s voter identification laws, as well as a case or more on whether section 5 of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.

It should be an interesting ride, especially as the 2012 election season gears up even further.