Tim Kuhner’s new book is out. Reviews and excerpts can be found here. The preface is available here. And here’s a trailer, too.

A couple weeks ago, Jowei Chen and I posted our forthcoming article, “The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights.” The replication code and data files for this project are now also available online, along with the appendix. The appendix includes… Continue reading

Yesterday I summarized my forthcoming work with Jowei Chen on the implications of race-blind redistricting for minority representation. Today I’ll talk about our partisan representation findings: how the major parties would be affected if district lines were drawn on a… Continue reading

I linked yesterday to my forthcoming article with Jowei Chen on the implications of race-blind redistricting. In this post, I thought I’d provide some additional detail about our methods and findings. First, to conduct a non-racial line-drawing process, we used… Continue reading

Jowei Chen and I just posted this article. It’s forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, and its abstract is below: A critical issue in any racial vote dilution case is the proportionality (or lack thereof) of a minority group’s… Continue reading

My latest for Slate. Here’s how the piece begins: Until recently, litigation about voting during the COVID-19 crisis followed a predictable pattern. Voters would complain about states’ restrictive regulations, conservatives would rush to the laws’ defense, and courts would referee… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Chris Warshaw, a political scientist at George Washington University: On November 3, 2020, voters across the country will go to the polls to cast their ballots for President, among other local, state,… Continue reading

A new paper by Jeffrey Buzas and Gregory Warrington. Here’s the abstract: We introduce simulated packing and cracking as a technique for evaluating partisan-gerrymandering measures. We apply it to historical congressional and legislative elections to evaluate four measures: partisan bias,… Continue reading

My article on Rucho and the Roberts Court is now up on the Supreme Court Review website (and available without subscription here). Once upon a time, Carolene Products provided an inspiring charter for the exercise of the power of… Continue reading

This short piece of mine on election law cases involving the pandemic is coming out soon in the University of Chicago Law Review Online. In this brief essay, I consider how courts have deployed the framework of sliding-scale scrutiny in… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Bill Whitford, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The United States Supreme Court did not need to reach a definitive decision in the recent lawsuit concerning the rules governing… Continue reading

I just posted this new article, which is forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. It tackles what I call “quasi campaign finance” — money spent on non-electoral politics that nevertheless relies on an electoral connection to be effective. The… Continue reading

My article with Chris Warshaw on how partisan gerrymandering impedes numerous party functions — candidate recruitment, fundraising, appealing to voters, and so on — is now up on the Legislative Studies Quarterly website. The abstract is below: The relationship between… Continue reading

A very interesting post by Darrell Miller connecting ongoing Second Amendment debates to my forthcoming article, The Anti-Carolene Court. Stephanopoulos, as a voting rights scholar, is most concerned with how judicial action (or inaction) aids partisan entrenchment rather than… Continue reading