WaPo: “With a court-ordered deadline looming Oct. 30, Republican leaders of the House of Delegates on Tuesday backed a ‘politically neutral, race-blind remedial redistricting map’ that they said would satisfy the court while causing minimal disruption to existing legislative district… Continue reading
Here’s the abstract for a new paper of mine, forthcoming in a Harvard Law & Policy Review symposium on representation, power, and corruption:
Academic studies of redistricting tend to be either doctrinal or empirical, but not both. As a result,… Continue reading
WSJ: “Hoping to quell fears about foreign hackers and repel potential threats, many states and counties are beefing up their plans to deal with cyberattacks.”
CNN: “A judge said he will order a Georgia Legislature district to redo a primary election between two Republicans because errors in voter data called the results into question.” It’s quite uncommon for a court to order this type… Continue reading
NPR’s Morning Edition on the role that private companies, including one whose largest investor is reportedly a Russian oligarch, play in running our elections.
With no noted dissents, the Supreme Court has turned down Crossroad GPS’s request for emergency relief from an order that will require disclosure of more of its donors who are contributing money to influence federal elections.
As I wrote… Continue reading
Ken Doyle for Bloomberg:
The continued secrecy of donors to campaign spending groups may depend on whether and how quickly the Senate can confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Chief Justice John Roberts reinstated in a brief order issued over… Continue reading
CFI Release:
In the years before the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (CU), independent expenditures (IEs) in state elections were dominated by formal state and local party organizations and labor unions. In the years… Continue reading
BREAKING: Federal judge in Atlanta denies motion for preliminary injunction to force the state of Georgia to switch to paper ballots for the 2018 midterms. But Judge Totenberg warned the state "further delay is not tolerable" in confronting election… Continue reading
NYT:
Nearly two weeks after voters went to the polls, Lori Trahan emerged Monday as the official winner of a crowded, 10-person Democratic primary for the congressional seat based in Lowell, Mass., held for a decade by Representative Niki Tsongas,… Continue reading