Category Archives: Supreme Court

“What Has 25 Years of Racial Gerrymandering Doctrine Achieved?”

April 4, 2018, 9:00 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Mike Pitts has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, UC Irvine Law Review). Here is the abstract: In 1993, Shaw v. Reno created a doctrine of racial gerrymandering that has now been in existence for 25 years. This Article examines… Continue reading

“The Multiple Uses of Justice Scalia”

April 2, 2018, 2:37 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Calvin TerBeek blogs at Balkinization.

“How Antonin Scalia Was the Trump of the Supreme Court”

March 30, 2018, 8:14 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Political Wire conversations: Rick Hasen, author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptor of the nation’s highest… Continue reading

New Blagojevich Cert. Petition Scheduled for Supreme Court Conference on April 13 Raises Circuit Split over When Campaign Contributions Can Violate Federal Anticorruption Laws

March 30, 2018, 8:00 ambribery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Docket. Here’s the question presented: When the Government prosecutes a public official for soliciting campaign contributions in alleged violation of the Hobbs Act or other federal anticorruption laws, must the Government prove the defendant made an “explicit promise or… Continue reading

“One Theory or Several?”

March 29, 2018, 12:18 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ned Foley blogs on the partisan gerrymandering morass at the Supreme Court.

“This Week’s Episode: Voting Wars and Justice Scalia, with Rick Hasen”

March 29, 2018, 10:14 amScalia, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Podcast from Take Care: On a new episode of Versus Trump, Jason talks to Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar and purveyor of the Election Law Blog, about what’s going on at the voting booth, possible campaign finance… Continue reading

After the Maryland Redistricting Argument at the Supreme Court, Will the Effort to Rein In Partisan Gerrymandering End with a Whimper?

March 28, 2018, 8:40 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

When the Supreme Court agreed to hold a full hearing in the Maryland redistricting case, Benisek v. Lamone, many of us wondered why the Court set a full hearing rather than simply hold the case for resolution of the… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Erwin Chemerinsky Interviewing Me at the LA ALOUD Program on Justice Scalia’s Legacy and My New Book

March 28, 2018, 6:18 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Great conversation! (alternative link.)

“Justice Scalia’s Legacy is Stronger Than Ever”

March 28, 2018, 7:15 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Over the next few months, the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver a crushing blow to public sector unions, allow more purges that remove eligible voters from the rolls, limit anti-discrimination … Continue reading

Still More on a 1st Amendment Theory of Gerrymandering

March 28, 2018, 4:14 amredistricting, Supreme CourtJustin Levitt

In light of today’s Benisek argument, and at the risk of getting banished to another forum (I jest, I think), I offer a modest addition to the Pildes–Stephanopoulos discussion on partisan gerrymandering and the First Amendment. I agree… Continue reading

The Supreme Court Case That Could Transform Politics: The late Antonin Scalia believed the court was powerless to do anything about gerrymandering. Will today’s justices agree?

March 26, 2018, 2:56 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Politico Magazine. It begins: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments in Benisek v. Lamone, a case about whether Maryland violated the First Amendment rights of Republican voters by redrawing the state’s congressional districts… Continue reading

Watch C-SPAN Video of Adam Liptak, Sue Bloch, and Me Discussing Justice Scalia’s Legacy and My New Book

March 26, 2018, 7:33 amScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can watch at this link. This is from an event at Georgetown Law (sponsored by ACS) held on March 6, 2018, about my new book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. … Continue reading

“Scalia’s Legacy: The Abiding Contradictions”

March 25, 2018, 4:07 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Jost on Justice: Antonin Scalia knew how to dish it out, but he wasn’t so good at taking it. Thus, Supreme Court watchers can be sure that the late justice would have nothing good to say about the myth-puncturing critique… Continue reading

Maltz: Originalism and Partisan Gerrymandering: A Response to Professor Foley

March 24, 2018, 8:13 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Professor Earl Maltz of Rutgers Law: In a recent series of blog posts drawn from a forthcoming article in the Georgia Law Review, Professor Edward B. Foley argues that a successful constitutional… Continue reading