Ross Davies has written this fun article for The Green Bag. Here is the abstract:
Over the past 80 years or so, maps have appeared in many (but not all) of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions involving gerrymanders. This… Continue reading
NYT:
The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration.
“ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a company called Date Hotter Girls and was now representing World… Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Rich Bernstein:
Imagine that a state’s statute (or constitution) required a photo ID to vote, but only in certain counties that had a history of consistently voting for Democrats by wide margins. Everyone… Continue reading
I have posted this draft for an upcoming conference on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The collapse of campaign finance regulation in the United States has facilitated a path toward oligarchic power redistribution. Americans did not adopt the current set… Continue reading
Sam Levine for The Guardian:
Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active cases, according to people… Continue reading
NYT:
The lone Republican vote in the Senate last month to protect consumers from bank overdraft fees came from an unlikely Democratic ally: Senator Josh Hawley, the archconservative from Missouri best known for calling out “wokeness” in all sectors of… Continue reading
Ned Barnett in the News and Observer:
The Griffin lawsuit has ping-ponged between state and federal courts for nearly six months and is currently pending in federal court. Ultimately, this case could endure all the way to the U.S. Supreme… Continue reading
Tapen Sinha:
Voting means (swimming) costume party
It has become a tradition – especially in surfing communities – to vote in their swimwear. Here is a young lady voting in “Surfers Paradise”. Yes, that is the name of the… Continue reading
NYT:
For months, Republicans in North Carolina have tried to do what President Trump and his allies could not in 2020: overturn an election that did not go their way.
What began as a sprawling effort to throw out 65,000… Continue reading
Travis has the main coverage at ELB, but I’ve posted some additional thoughts at Bluesky (read the whole thread):
The district court's opinion partially & temporarily blocking key parts of Trump's executive order on elections is careful, persuasive, and seems… Continue reading
Elon Musk has made a completely unsupported claim that protests against him and Tesla for his work trying to dismantle and hobble much of the U.S. government through DOGE are being “paid” for by those who like fraud and abuse… Continue reading
The court’s order stops what is likely an unconstitutional attempt approved by North Carolina state courts to overturn the results an election to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
I’ve written about the irreparable harm from the district court’s allowing a… Continue reading
NYT:
Three Manhattan federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said Tuesday that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email… Continue reading