FairVote has released this policy brief on HJR44. As I mentioned at this Netroots Nation panel the other day, I’m wary but willing to be convinced.  There are many different ways in which election-related rights are now constitutionally protected,… Continue reading

Kirsten Nussbaumer: “In Louisiana v. Bryson, the state of Louisiana has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to exclude so-called “non-immigrant foreign nationals” from the federal census count for purposes of interstate apportionment of congressional representatives.  If Louisiana has… Continue reading

Kirsten Nussbauer has posted this draft on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: At the time of the American founding, discourse about election regulation was shaped by a venerated — but now long-forgotten — “republican” (or “whig”) tradition that taught that… Continue reading