A guest post by Chris Elmendorf and Eric McGhee: During oral argument in Gill v. Whitford, the partisan gerrymandering case, Justice Gorsuch complained that the plaintiffs’ proposed test for unconstitutional gerrymanders was too much like a steak rub: “I like … Continue reading
Category Archives: guest blogging election law scholarship
(with Joey Fishkin, University of Texas Law School) Bob Bauer just offered a thoughtful and engaging commentary on our work and a new report by the Brennan Center, both focused on the relationship between the political parties and campaign finance. … Continue reading
Guy-Urïel Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, have a new piece in the Iowa Law Review. I offered a commentary, here. Just to give you a flavor for the piece is, here’s a brief excerpt from my introduction, which offers a rough summary … Continue reading
Over at Balkinization, I’ve been blogging (here, here, here, and here) about the benefits associated with spillovers, which occur when one state’s policies affect citizens of another state. Most of those arguments have to do with my other field, federalism. … Continue reading
For the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a new paper of mine on Windsor v. United States over on Balkinization (here, here, and here). I offer a new spin on it, one that invokes Ely’s Democracy and Distrust … Continue reading
Will Baude’s Washington Post piece raises an interesting significance-of-the-legislative-process question. While Will (and the Court) frames the issue in constitutional terms, it has obvious statutory interpretation implications as well. Just a few things that popped out at me while reading … Continue reading
Here is the final guest post from Chris Elmendorf on his forthcoming paper: Critics of Section 2 have long voiced three specific complaints. In this final blog post about my paper, I’m going to revisit those objections and highlight what’s … Continue reading
Here is Chris Elmendorf’s latest guest blog post: In my last two posts, I argued that constitutional doubts about Section 2 could be resolved by conditioning liability on a showing that the plaintiffs’ injury resulted from race-biased decisionmaking by public … Continue reading
Here’ Chris Elmendorf’s latest guest post: In yesterday’s post, I argued that constitutional doubts about Section 2’s results test would be put to rest if plaintiffs were required to show that their injury resulted from race-biased (prejudiced or stereotyped) decisions … Continue reading
Here’s Chris Elmendorf’s second guest post on his forthcoming piece: Enacted by Congress in 1982, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) bans electoral structures “which result[]” in members of a class of citizens defined by race or color … Continue reading
Here is Chris Elmendorf’s first guest blog post: Rick Hasen has kindly invited me to guest-blog this week about my forthcoming article, Making Sense of Section 2: Of Biased Votes, Unconstitutional Elections, and Common Law Statutes, 160 U. Pa. L. … Continue reading
As the latest in my series of scholars guest-blogging on new or forthcoming election law scholarship, I am happy to report that Chris Elmendorf of UC Davis will be guest blogging this week on his provocative new article, Making Sense … Continue reading