KC Star: Kris Kobach appears to be running for U.S. Senate and to have launched his campaign by  misspelling his own name.A campaign committee named Kobach for Senate filed with the Federal Election Commission Monday morning, hours before Kobach was… Continue reading

Marty Lederman blogs.

AP reports.

Josh Marshall: 2/ So it seems the Trump re-elect campaign is also saying now that the point of adding a citizenship question to the Census is to make Census less accurate and redistrict on the basis of citizenship rather than… Continue reading

Read the motion.

In a new filing, the Department of Justice has told the federal district court in Maryland considering whether the addition of the citizenship question on the census was done for reasons of racial animus that the government may still… Continue reading

Governor statement.

During this week, I posted some great contributions from a number of important election law voices on the future of partisan gerrymandering after the Supreme Court’s opinion in Rucho. Thanks to all for participating! Here are the posts: Michael … Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Sam Wang, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Chief Justice Roberts’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause expresses a paradox: (a) gerrymandering a map for political advantage goes… Continue reading

Watch.

We are beginning to get little windows into the internal governmental process involved in the reversal-of-course on the Census issue. As expected, the DOJ lawyers concluded that the issue was over, because there was not enough time left to generate… Continue reading

Axios reports. I don’t see how doing this through an executive order helps at all. The issue is not whether the President (or Commerce Secretary) has the right to add a citizenship question, per the Supreme Court’s Department of … Continue reading

My latest for Slate (though not the title I would have chosen). I first describe the new gerrymandering techniques we may see after Rucho: Let’s start with the schemes we’re likely to see now that the federal courts have been… Continue reading

NPR reports. Am I misreading this, or is Scott Walker complaining that Democrats draw "unfair" maps because they have more supporters than Republicans do and so they can redistrict to capture seats reflecting their popularity? https://t.co/FOL3pKAYmK pic.twitter.com/mrRPSt1dwx— Rick Hasen… Continue reading