I Spoke to Mary Harris of Slate’s “What Next” About Trump and Mail-in Ballots
You can listen here.
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“Gavin Newsom wants an election in a hurry on his gerrymander. Here’s what has to happen”
“Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn’t give him that power”
The Roberts Court Has Applied the Unitary Executive Branch Doctrine Consistently Across Administrations
As most separation of powers/administrative law scholars know, the Roberts Court has consistently applied the unitary executive branch theory (UET) across Democratic and Republican administrations. That theory maintains, at a minimum, that the President must have the power to remove… Continue reading
“Missouri Republicans appear headed to congressional redistricting special session”
St. Louis Public Radio reports.
“Is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Unconstitutional?”
Bradley Smith and I talked about Callais and the future of Section 2 in the National Constitution Center’s “We the People” podcast with Jeffrey Rosen.
In this episode, Bradley Smith of Capital University Law School and Nicholas Stephanopoulos of Harvard… Continue reading
“Democrats are fighting fire with fire over redistricting – but will democracy burn?”
Sam Levine for the Guardian:
“Gerrymandering is bad enough once a decade,” said Richard Pildes, a law professor at New York University. “But if we open the door to continual efforts throughout the decade to squeeze out every additional seat… Continue reading
“Justice Department presses Texas for list of registered voters, and the officials who check it”
“How to Avoid a Gerrymandering War”
Ron Brownstein in Bloomberg (paywalled).
“The current House is unusual in the modern era in being very close to perfectly neutral according to various measures of partisan bias,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a professor at Harvard Law School and expert in redistricting,… Continue reading
“No Longer ‘Dead Brad Walking’: Georgia’s Election Chief Makes a Comeback”
From the WSJ, which is paywalled:
Five years ago, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was banished to the political wilderness.
Donald Trump blamed the mild-mannered election chief for his narrow 2020 Georgia defeat, branding him a RINO… Continue reading
“Why is American democracy in such peril?”
That’s the title of a talk I’ve delivered while at the University of Melbourne on a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship. It’s my effort to explain succinctly how the United States got to the current dire situation and to point… Continue reading
“Newsom warns Trump in heated letter he’s ‘playing with fire’ on redistricting”
LA Times:
With Democrats lining up for a bare-knuckle match on redistricting, Gov. Gavin Newsom has offered President Trump a cease-fire proposal: No redrawing congressional maps in red states and California will stand down, he wrote in a letter… Continue reading
Looking back at 2021-2022
In light of Rick P’s post about David Shor’s current lament about the failure of Congress to redress gerrymandering back when Democrats were consumed by their efforts to enact the massive S1/HR1 reforms, I recall this column I wrote for… Continue reading