I have written this article for the OC Lawyer (republished with permission). It begins:

The Supreme Court will be back in session next month, and once again election law is on the docket. The Court is set to hear three election law cases so far in the October 2015 term, with more likely to come to the Court on an emergency basis as the 2016 elections bring out the inevitable army of election lawyers fighting in the voting wars. The three cases the Court will hear are on top of twenty-nine election law cases decided with a written opinion in the first decade of the Roberts Court. The Court long ago ignored Justice Felix Frankfurter’s admonition to stay out of the “political thicket.” Here is a quick look at what is at stake in the world of elections in the upcoming term.