Please direct any tips and comments to Rick P. And thanks to Guy for holding down the fort this week!

Rick LaRue replies here to Henry Olsen’s comments on LaRue’s electoral reform proposals.

From the Democracy Docket. A snippet: Lawsuit filed on behalf of the Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP, Equal Ground Education Fund, Voters of Tomorrow, Disability Rights Florida, Alianza for Progress, Alianza Center, UnidosUS… Continue reading

This story in Politico by Josh Gerstein. A snippet: Chief Justice John Roberts signaled Tuesday that the Supreme Court is attuned to public ethics concerns about the justices, saying that he’s seeking ways to address those worries without jeopardizing the… Continue reading

The bill is here. For more details, see here.

A Balkinization post by Gerard N. Magliocca

A story by WLRN reporter Joshua Ceballos on this ACLU lawsuit alleging that the City of Miami’s electoral districts were racially gerrymandered. A snippet from the WLRN story: A federal magistrate judge has recommended that the City of Miami throw… Continue reading

This is a guest post by Professor Travis Crum: Last week, I was in Washington, DC, and stopped by the Library of Congress to check out the newly opened papers of Justice Stevens. Given my interest in the Fifteenth… Continue reading

Sightline Institute conducted this analysis of Alaska’s voting system. Key findings: In 2022, Alaska held its first elections with open primaries and ranked choice voting.   Sightline analyzed the diversity of Alaska legislative classes from 2008 to 2022 in four areas:… Continue reading

A story in Politico by Katherine Tully-McManus and Nicholas Wu on Dianne Feinstein. A snippet: Dianne Feinstein has taken on a noticeably lighter schedule since she came back from California. She appears in the Senate only at committee hearings or… Continue reading

Send your tips and questions to Guy! I’m grateful for the opportunity to step in this week and have cleared out my queue of pending legal questions for the moment….

You can watch here, as Mehdi interviews Claire Woodall-Vogg and me: See also my earlier Slate piece on this question.

Thanks to Derek for his excellent work next week. Beginning Monday, direct any tips and queries to Guy.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a racial gerrymandering case involving South Carolina’s First Congressional District. At first glance, the issue presented in the case is fairly conventional: Did race or partisan advantage predominantly explain the First… Continue reading