I wrote this column for the Washington Post on the Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich. It concludes as follows: It isn’t textualism to follow statutory language only when doing so is congenial to one’s ideological allies. It isn’t textualism to… Continue reading

One of the changes coming to ELB is that ELB contributors are going to be part of a regular blogging rotation as the primary blogger on the site. Each contributor may sign up for one to two weeks of regular… Continue reading

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The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has severely weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as a tool to fight against laws that make it harder to register and vote. Rather than focus on disparate impact—whether a law… Continue reading

I’m so thrilled about the all-new ELB, with new contributors, a broader diversity of voices, ELB Book Corner, and much more. Getting this site, which has been around since 2003, into shape for the current moment and expansion, took a… Continue reading

New Weigel.

Maybe some space for bipartisan work here.

NPR reports.

We were planning on switching over to the new Election Law Blog theme on the night of June 30/morning of July 1, but with the big election law-related opinions coming July 1, we are doing the transition today. So the… Continue reading

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker.

Colorado’s independent commission just made public its draft state legislative maps. PlanScore’s analyses of the maps are below. They’re both impressively balanced based on every measure of partisan fairness.

Really looking forward to this virtual event. Registration required.

Shane Goldmacher deep dive for NYT.

That’s the way I would frame the big-picture perspective on this case.  The major precedents on when state demands for disclosure of a group’s donors violate the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of association (outside the campaign-finance context) come from… Continue reading