In case any of you getting ready for teaching missed the Foundation Press notice that was distributed to all election-law academics a while back, the 2018 Supplement can be found here for our casebook, The Law of Democracy (Issacharoff, Karlan,… Continue reading
That’s the sub-headline on this piece at US News & World Report, which analyzes a database that Open Secrets.org has put together on money that foreign governments and their agents spend on lobbying in the US. These figures involve money… Continue reading
An increasingly central and recurring issue in voting-rights litigation today is how courts should evaluate recent changes to various laws regulating the voting system. How much should the prior status quo matter in this assessment? This can present paradoxes for… Continue reading
An opinion essay in today’s WSJ, titled If Faith in Democracy Ebbs, Danger Rises, by Gerald F. Seib, generally discusses the loss of trust across the political spectrum in the political process. The piece includes these chilling lines, based on… Continue reading
There’s a lengthy interview on the partisan gerrymandering cases with Professor Bruce Cain, in Pacific Standard. This part in particular jumped out at me:
Why was the efficiency gap promoted by the plaintiffs in Gill, and in the press… Continue reading
Politico MagazIne has assessments of Justice Kennedy from “17 legal thinkers” at this link. Here is an excerpt from mine:
The realization of human dignity and the importance of value pluralism are the themes that run most deeply to me… Continue reading
That’s the title for the piece I was asked to contribute to the SCOTUSblog Symposium on the partisan gerrymandering cases. Here is the piece, and here is an excerpt:
There is yet another constitutional provision, not at issue in Gill,… Continue reading
My New York Times op-ed on today’s redistricting decisions is now available here (as most readers know, the NYT chooses its own title for these). Here are a couple excerpts:
Among major democracies, only in the United States are self-interested… Continue reading
Looks like London Breed, the candidate who ranked first on a plurality of ballots in the first round of SF’s ranked-choice election, is the new mayor of SF. This despite earlier reports that suggested the candidate who initially ranked second,… Continue reading
Surprised to learn that? I know I was. I discovered that from Justin Levitt’s blog post, here, which says:
This is not a new piece of voter suppression devised by current elections officials: Ohio put the process in place… Continue reading
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is getting a test on bigger stages these days, with the Mayor’s race in San Francisco and the upcoming statewide primaries in Maine now making use of it.
SF used RCV on Tuesday in the race for… Continue reading
Now that Justice Gorsuch has issued a majority opinion from the Court’s October sitting, it is most likely that Chief Justice Roberts is writing the opinion for the Court in Gill (unless the Court decides to hold the case over… Continue reading
A significant feature in these cases is the sheer brazenness with which critical legislators in the redistricting process across various states have been willing to blatantly proclaim their aggressive partisan objectives. In the previous major cases before the Court, from… Continue reading