I have written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court rules Section 2 unconstitutional because it… Continue reading
Abbie Van Sickle for the NYT:
One woman made national news when she protested the Covid-19 vaccine at her local City Council. Another is a member of the Trumpettes, a group of women united in their ardent support for the… Continue reading
From Politico’s roundup of this morning’s Sunday talk shows:
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on having conversations amid a wave of political violence, on “Fox News Sunday”: “I feel like when I talk to people, people are not happy with… Continue reading
NYT:
More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those… Continue reading
NYT:
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to arguments by an Illinois congressman that political candidates should be able to challenge their states’ election laws.
During the approximately two-hour argument, the justices grappled with what… Continue reading
I asked Dan Weiner of the Brennan Center to write a bit about the interesting position they’ve taken in the NRSC campaign finance case. Here is his guest post:
On Monday the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed… Continue reading
I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins:
With President Donald Trump flooding the zone with attacks on American democracy and the rule of law, it’s easy to lose sight of the damage that the Supreme Court is … Continue reading
Thursday, October 16
Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Elections (webinar)
12:15pm-1:15pm PTRegister here.Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School, Moon Duchin, Director, Data and Democracy Research Initiative, University of Chicago, Michael Li, NYU Law Brennan Center for Justice, and … Continue reading
FSU Election Law Center:
This conference, presented by FSU’s Election Law Center, will be a one-hour teleforum taking place on October 16, 2025, at 12 PM EST. We’ll bring together three panelists and a moderator to dig into the… Continue reading
I’m very excited to be working on this major project, bringing together my many strands of research on democracy and election law. Here’s the Publisher’s Marketplace announcement (the book itself won’t be published until early 2028):
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh says good judges are like good referees.
“Am I calling it the same way for labor and management, for the business and the environmental interests, for the Republican and the Democrat?”… Continue reading