Yael Bromberg has posted this draft on SSRN (University of Pa. Journal of Constitutional Law). Here is the abstract: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment was designed to bring young people into the political process by constitutionalizing their right to vote. However, the… Continue reading

Message from Ellen Weintraub: SYMPOSIUM:  Digital Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy: Information Integrity in the 2020 Elections As the technology for manipulation of information steadily advances, and malicious outsiders and foreign influence operators resort to the dissemination of false… Continue reading

The Tennessean: Tennessee ranks 44th nationwide in voter registration, but saw a surge in voter registration during the 2018 midterm elections.The voter registration bill came during this year’s legislative session, after Hargett said he noted many of the 10,000 registrations… Continue reading

Isaac Chotiner: Over the past several decades, Eric Foner, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, has established himself as one of the preëminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1988, he published “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, … Continue reading

Tuesday at 10 am. Witness list: Myrna Pérez, Voting Rights and Elections Program Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU LawVanita Gupta, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsDale Ho, Voting Rights Project Director, ACLUDerrick Johnson, President… Continue reading

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump House Republicans should allow Chairs of Committees to remain for longer than 6 years. It forces great people, and real leaders, to leave after serving. The Dems have unlimited terms. While that has its own problems,… Continue reading

WaPo: As Congress returns this week, Mitch McConnell remains the one-man roadblock for Democrats’ election security bills. He’s still refusing to allow a vote, even as Democrats deride him as “Moscow Mitch” and accuse him of inviting … Continue reading

Remarkably, yesterday’s decision striking down North Carolina’s state legislative maps as partisan gerrymanders was the eighth straight ruling against gerrymandering by a state or lower federal court. Florida and Pennsylvania state courts preceded yesterday’s decision by a three-judge North Carolina… Continue reading

Goldfeder and Perez in the NYLJ.

Jason Harrow for Take Care: Rick Hasen is among the sharpest minds in the world of election law, and I find myself nodding in violent agreement with most of what he writes. That’s why I was surprised to read his… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

WaPo reports.

This set of three opinions raises some important, unresolved VRA section 2 questions. This one could well go en banc given Judge Willett’s dissent and the increasingly hard conservative makeup of the Fifth Circuit.

Jerry Goldfeder in the Albany Times-Union.