Once again it has been a busy year for the Election Law Blog and 2019 promises some major developments as well in the area of voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting, polarization, the Supreme Court and other topics.
I’ve got a few new projects in the works (more about that over the next few months), and a full load of teaching and speaking coming up.
I wish all my readers a safe, healthy, and happy 2019.
Below the fold you’ll find a list of books, articles, and opeds that I’ve published (or that were released in draft) in 2018. Thanks for reading!
Books
Modern American Remedies (Wolters Kluwer, 2019) (co-authored with Professor Douglas Laycock) (also a separate Concise Edition)
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption (Yale University Press 2018)
Articles and Working Papers
QV or Not QV? That is the Question; Some Skepticism About Radical Egalitarian Voting Markets, University of Chicago Law Review(forthcoming 2019) (draft available)
Polarization and the Judiciary, 22 Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming 2019) (draft available)
’Civil Right No. 1:’ Dr. King’s Unfinished Voting Rights Revolution”, University of Memphis Law Review (forthcoming 2018) (draft available)
Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (to American Democracy), 16 First Amendment Law Review 200 (2018)
The 2016 U.S. Voting Wars: From Bad to Worse, 26 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 529 (2018)
Essay: Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases, 59 William and Mary Law Review1837 (2018)
Opeds and commenataries
Trump’s ‘Obama Did It Too’ Legal Defense Does Not Hold an Ounce of Water, Slate, Dec. 10, 2018
Republicans Are Using Potential GOP Election Crimes in North Carolina to Push for More Voter Suppression Measures, Slate, Dec. 7, 2018
Stacey Abrams’ New Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Broken Voting System Is Incredibly Smart, Slate, Nov. 27, 2018
Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor’s Race ‘Stolen’, Slate, Nov. 18, 2018
What’s Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse, Slate, Nov. 12, 2018
Brian Kemp Just Engaged in a Last-Minute Act of Banana-Republic Level Voter Manipulation in Georgia, Slate, Nov. 4, 2018
Judges Are Telling Minority Voters They’re Probably Being Disenfranchised, but It’s Too Late to Do Anything About It, Slate, Nov. 2, 2018
How Democrats Can Reverse Years of Voter Suppression. It doesn’t require packing the Supreme Court, Slate, Oct. 30, 2018
Is the Assault on Voting Rights Getting Worse, or Are We Just Noticing It More?, Slate, Oct. 23, 2018
The Next Threat to Redistricting Reform, Harvard Law Review Blog, Oct. 22, 2018
Liberals Must Embrace a Bankrupt Judicial Philosophy to Have Any Chance of Winning at the Supreme Court, Slate, Oct. 18, 2018
Susan Collins Complains of ‘Bribery’ After Nonbillionaires Try to Influence Her Kavanaugh Vote, Slate, Sept. 12, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh May Soon Unshackle All Rich Political Donors, Slate, Sept. 3, 2018
Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Directly Implicates Donald Trump in a Felony, Slate, Aug. 21, 2018
The Chance of Michael Cohen Facing Criminal Campaign Finance Charges Just Went Up, Slate, Aug. 16, 2018
How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting Rights and American Democracy, Slate, July 2, 2018
The Only Thing That Might Stop Trump From Replacing Kennedy With a Scalia Clone, Slate, Jun. 27, 2018
Did Justice Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement? The depressing defeatism of Kennedy’s work this term indicates his time on the court could be coming to an end, Slate, Jun. 26, 2018
Suppression of Minority Voting Rights is About to Get Way Worse, Slate, June 25, 2018
California’s Supreme Court can kill Cal-3 quickly and save us all a lot of trouble, L.A. Times, June 25, 2018
Justice Kennedy Still Won’t Rule on Gerrymandering, Slate, June 18, 2018
The Supreme Court Made a Good Decision on Election Law; In praise of the ruling in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, Slate, June 14, 2018
Sonia Sotomayor’s Dissent in the Big Voter Purge Case Points to How the Law Might Still Be Struck Down, Slate, Jun. 11, 2018
Rudy Giuliani May Have Just Implicated President Trump In Serious Campaign Finance Violations, Slate, May 2, 2018
Scalia’s Goal Of Unwinding Voter Protections Is Becoming A Reality, Talking Points Memo, April 2, 2018
Justice Scalia’s Legacy is Stronger than Ever, Slate, March 28, 2018
The Supreme Court Case That Could Transform Politics, Politico, March 26, 2018
Supreme Court Avoids Bush v. Gore II in Ducking Pennsylvania Redistricting Controversy, Harvard Law Review Blog, March 22, 2018
Free Speech vs. Freedom from Intimidation, Slate, Feb. 28, 2018
In Pair of Opinions, Fight Over Textualism Lives On, National Law Journal, Feb. 22, 2018
Mueller’s Indictment Shows the Way for Russians to Legally Try to Influence Our Elections Next Time, Slate, Feb. 17, 2018
Stop treating Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a.k.a. ‘Notorious R.B.G.’ — like a celebrity, L.A. Times, Feb. 15, 2018
Antonin Scalia’s disruption of the Supreme Court’s ways is here to stay, Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2018
Trump will still yell about voter fraud, but at least his clownish election commission can’t do any lasting damage, L.A. Times, Jan. 4, 2018