Fernanda Santos for the NYT:
The Justice Department has opened an investigation over the decisions that led to the chaotic presidential primaries in Arizona’s most populous county, where thousands of voters waited up to five hours to cast ballots and… Continue reading
Terry Ao Minnis and Adam Ambrogi in Governing:
During the Democratic presidential caucus in Nevada last month, the issue of language assistance in elections came up front and center — and it was not pretty. Fingers pointed in… Continue reading
Fernanda Santos reports for the NYT:
All day, lines meandered along church courtyards, zigzagged along school parking lots and snaked around shadeless blocks as tens of thousands of voters waited to cast their ballots, including many independents who did not… Continue reading
I have posted a revised version of this paper (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) to take into account the death of Justice Scalia. Here is the revised abstract:
This Essay describes the path of election law jurisprudence in the Roberts Court… Continue reading
AP:
The Arizona presidential primary drew long lines Tuesday as people waited at least an hour in many polling spots to cast their ballots amid heightened interest in the polarizing contest for the White House….
Long lines were expected… Continue reading
Press release:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting… Continue reading
I have now had a chance to review the substantive election law decisions of Judge Merrick Garland that my research assistant and I have identified (listed after the jump). With the caveat that the job of a lower court judge… Continue reading