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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

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

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

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

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

“The majority of today should always fear that it may find itself in the minority tomorrow and that its rules can be used against it. . . . What happens when this breaks down? What happens if the majority of… Continue reading

for blogging this last week, which should have been quiet at the beginning of August and was anything but.

As we all know, the Callais reargument potentially poses the momentous question of Section 2’s constitutionality. But it’s worth noting how many steps the Court would have to take to reach that question. Each of these steps represents an offramp… Continue reading

New York Times. Developments in recent weeks signaled that some members of the court think there is more work to be done in removing legal guardrails governing elections. There are now signs that court is considering striking down or severely… Continue reading

I spoke to CNN about Texas and Mid-Decade Redistricting@RedistrictNet @CNN pic.twitter.com/zTk1aqb3vs— Rick Pildes (@RickPildes) August 9, 2025 https://x.com/RickPildes/status/1954187436021432390

Fix the Court posts an audio recording of Justice Sotomayor speaking at an interview at the University of Zurich in July of 2024. Apparently, Fix the Court just obtained this recording recently. A Justice’s talk at a university is usually… Continue reading

Bolts Magazine: Seattle is poised to continue its experiment in public campaign financing. Voters on Tuesday appear to have renewed the city’s democracy vouchers program, which provides each adult Seattle resident with four $25 vouchers they can donate to local… Continue reading