Columbus Underground: At the urging of local ballot issue committee Everyday People for Positive Change (EDP), the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued a letter to the City of Columbus asserting that its at-large method of electing city council members… Continue reading

James Tucker, Natalie Landreth, and Erin Lynch have written this article for the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. Here is the abstract: This article explores the many forms of discrimination that have persisted in Alaska, the resulting first generation… Continue reading

Counselor, there is no confusion. The confusion has been created by these trolls who are trying to change the conversation. I am not aware of any time in the history of the state where any individual has been denied the… Continue reading

Bob Egelko for the SF Chronicle: A conservative who led a successful legal challenge to a core provision of the federal Voting Rights Act is training his sights on California’s version of the law, which allows minorities to challenge the… Continue reading

Here is the complaint and here is the press release. Blum is the force behind the Shelby County cases (killing a key part of the Voting Rights Act) and various attacks on affirmative action. There was an earlier, unsuccessful… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: In a crucial victory for Hispanic voters in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, the city will remain under federal oversight for any changes to its voting laws until 2023 — the only setup of its kind in Texas.… Continue reading

UPDATE to the post below: The information I had was incomplete.  This settlement still must be approved twice by the Pasadena City Council, which likely will not happen until some time in November.   City will also pay $1 million… Continue reading

Ryan Rodenberg and John Holden have posted this draft on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: We find PASPA’s partial and non-uniform ban on state-sponsored sports wagering to run afoul of the equal sovereignty doctrine’s general constraints as set forth in… Continue reading

Very much looking forward to participating in this symposium, at the University of the South, Oct. 12-13. Historian Eric Foner is giving the keynote and I am excited! I’ll be presenting Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All… Continue reading