I have long posted links to ELB blog posts on Twitter, but it was a manual process. We’ve now automated it, and there are two ways to keep up.
You can subscribe to my Twitter feed, @rickhasen. It will… Continue reading
I had the chance to testify at today’s House hearing on Brnovich and its implications along with Sean Morales-Doyle, Robert Popper, and Ezra Rosenberg. My written testimony can be found here, and a few excerpts are below (focusing on… Continue reading
Dave’s Redistricting App (DRA), which is free, has become an extraordinarily powerful tool in this decade for individuals and groups seeking to draw their own redistricting maps. Thousands of DRA users have created more than half-a-million Congressional, state legislative,… Continue reading
Michael Kang has published this article in the Emory Law Journal. Here’s the abstract:
Hyperpartisanship dominates modern American politics and government, but today’s politics are strikingly different from the preceding period of American history, a Cold War Era when bipartisanship… Continue reading
I’m looking forward to testifying at this hearing Wednesday:
Restoring the Voting Rights Act after Brnovich and Shelby County
Subcommittee on The Constitution
DATE:Wednesday, July 14, 2021ADD TO MY CALENDARTIME:02:30 PMLOCATION:Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226PRESIDING:Chair Blumenthal
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
“The bottom line is Ohioans should know that voter fraud is exceedingly rare,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said. LaRose, a Republican, referred those 13 names and 104 others who might have registered to… Continue reading
Josh Douglas in USA Today, combining his loves for voting and baseball:
Baseball took a good first step in punishing Georgia for its new restrictive voting rules and rewarding Colorado for its strong approach to democracy. But to really… Continue reading
As part of the improvements to the site, ELB will be moving to a new server on Friday July 16. The site will be down for much of the day, and you may need to refresh or clear your cache… Continue reading
That’s the title of a new article of mine. Here’s the abstract and the link:
What is the most fundamental challenge facing democracies today? One major concern is democratic backsliding, regression, or the rise of “illiberal democracies.” Another concern,… Continue reading
In mainstream constitutional law, there’s a sharp distinction between claims based on rights burdens and claims based on unequal treatment. Substantive due process is the quintessential doctrine of rights burdens. In that area, the theory is always that some right… Continue reading
I wrote an amicus brief in Brnovich, based on this earlier law review article, recommending the same framework for Section 2 vote denial claims that’s already used for all other disparate impact claims. Under this framework, the plaintiff would… Continue reading
The most doctrinally significant portion of the Court’s opinion in Brnovich is part III.C.1, where the Court announces a series of factors that will be particularly salient in Section 2 vote denial cases from this point forward. These factors are… Continue reading