Others have made this point, but I wanted to flag this gratuitous and unsupported impugning of district court judge Furman in the census case. Thomas painted Furman as a conspiracy theorist in his partial dissent (joined by Gorsuch and… Continue reading
NYT:
Thursday’s 5-4 ruling means that North Carolina’s current Republican-drawn map delineating its 13 Congressional districts — a map that critics have said is among the country’s most egregious examples of hyper-partisanship — will stand. The decision could also… Continue reading
I’ll
have more to say about the Court’s appalling opinion in Rucho in Rick’s symposium next week. But I want to flag one point
now: the Court’s erasure of racial vote dilution doctrine. This is the doctrine
that allows groups… Continue reading
Yesterday at the Balkinization blog, I put up this perspective on the Court’s Census decision. Here is a bit of that analysis:
Today’s decision in the Census case is a powerful example of what I call an “institutionally realist” approach… Continue reading
Politico:
Trump spoke to reporters briefly before he and Putin were scheduled to talk for an hour to discuss a series of national security issues, including Iran’s recent aggression, the civil war in Syria, where the United States… Continue reading
Peter is retiring as the Money and Politics reporter at NPR after a great run. I’ve always benefitted from Peter’s tenacity and his excellent reporting skills.
Happy Retirement and we will miss you on the beat!
NYT:
The House on Thursday approved expansive election security legislation that would mandate the use of backup paper ballots and postelection vote audits to guard against potential foreign meddling, seeking to pressure Senator Mitch McConnell to lift his blockade of… Continue reading