CNN: Texas’ most populous county – Harris County, which is home to Houston – has filed a lawsuit against state officials challenging the constitutionality of a new law that eliminates the position of local elections administrator, Harris County Attorney Christian… Continue reading

AP: A fight over whether Wisconsin’s top elections official will keep her job has potential implications for the 2024 presidential contest in a perennial battleground where statewide margins are typically razor thin. Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin… Continue reading

CNY Central: The Oneida County Board of Elections (BOE) will have to hold a special primary election after officials realized a clerical error caused them to leave a Republican Primary in the Town of Remsen off the ballot yesterday. Typically,… Continue reading

Paul Kane for WaPo: A series of Supreme Court rulings gave Democrats a needed jolt to shore up their ranks in the South heading into the pivotal 2024 election. But those rulings also set up a game of musical chairs… Continue reading

I’ve started reading the new paper Rick H. links to a few posts below. This paper is going to be pored over by those interested in voting laws and policies. Here’s another paragraph from the paper: [W]e believe that the… Continue reading

Carolyn Shapiro has written a thoughtful response to my previous post. I offer a couple of quick additional points: First, my characterization of how the majority of SCOTUS perceives what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did in 2020 (in… Continue reading

Votebeat: Pinal County’s elections director abruptly resigned this week after facing harsh criticism from the county GOP. Her scathing resignation letter led many to compare her departure to those of other elections directors across the country who… Continue reading

Courthouse News Service on the oral argument.

This looks to be an important new article in the APSR from a strong group of authors. Here’s the abstract: Debates over racial voting, and over policies to combat vote dilution, turn on the extent to which groups’ voting preferences… Continue reading

Wilfred Codrington has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract: Together with the decennial Census, the reapportionment and redistricting processes comprise the most integral components for ensuring appropriate representation in the U.S. system of… Continue reading

CNN: Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. The meeting between Giuliani,… Continue reading

In his valuable New York Times column this morning, Rick Pildes rightly emphasizes the need for clarity in rules governing the electoral process, especially the rules concerning the casting and counting of ballots. Rick worries, however, that yesterday’s decision… Continue reading

1. It’s striking how the entire Court accepts Arizona State Legislature and its holding that the Elections Clause doesn’t preclude independent redistricting commissions. Roberts spends two pages discussing the case without suggesting any criticisms (even though he authored a bitter… Continue reading