The Post and Courier reports on Rep. Ralph Norman’s proposal to eliminate through gerrymandering Rep. Jim Clyburn’s House seat. According to the story, “a far-right faction of the S.C. Legislature says it will introduce legislation to redraw the lines to… Continue reading

A new Center for American Progress report, with this subtitle: “By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.”

I’ve written a new “Justice, Democracy, and Law” column for SCOTUSblog. Here’s its summary: There’s a widespread belief that the Supreme Court is poised to invalidate the core provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But that belief is… Continue reading

It starts with an episode, “What America Can Learn from Australia” available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, in which I discuss with the Election Law at Ohio State team my reflections from spending a month this summer on a… Continue reading

I was the guest and enjoyed a productive conversation on a Lawyer-2-Lawyer podcast.

I was honored to be a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne this summer (well, winter in Australia). The fellowship was a wonderful opportunity to get to know members of the university’s superb faculty, especially at its… Continue reading

That’s the title of a talk I’ve delivered while at the University of Melbourne on a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship. It’s my effort to explain succinctly how the United States got to the current dire situation and to point… Continue reading

In light of Rick P’s post about David Shor’s current lament about the failure of Congress to redress gerrymandering back when Democrats were consumed by their efforts to enact the massive S1/HR1 reforms, I recall this column I wrote for… Continue reading

Rick H. has recently lamented that more media attention is being paid to the current fight over mid-decade redistricting than over the Supreme Court’s potential ruling in the Louisiana Voting Rights Act case. Both are huge developments in the field… Continue reading

Here’s the first of a periodic column I will be doing for SCOTUSblog. It comes with this introductory description: The biggest questions in constitutional law concern the power of the Supreme Court to decide questions differently from what elected officials… Continue reading

Since Rucho, it’s been generally assumed that attempting to litigate against partisan gerrymanders in federal court is an utter nonstarter. I think this is largely correct, but it light of all the recent discussion over the efforts to make the… Continue reading

A new Common Ground Democracy post with this subtitle: “The upcoming U.S. Senate election in Texas perfectly illustrates the importance of this voting reform.” The post itself begins: “The University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government, as part of its… Continue reading

We will need to wait to see the cast vote records from the primary (they were available last time, so presumably—and hopefully—they will be again this time), but it’s conceivable that Mamdani was not the Condorcet Winner. In an election… Continue reading

A new Common Ground Democracy essay. At the conference for which this essay was written, the view was expressed by some that the only solution to the current presidential attack on the rule of law is for Democrats in 2028… Continue reading