Fix the Court posts an audio recording of Justice Sotomayor speaking at an interview at the University of Zurich in July of 2024. Apparently, Fix the Court just obtained this recording recently. A Justice’s talk at a university is usually… Continue reading

Bolts Magazine: Seattle is poised to continue its experiment in public campaign financing. Voters on Tuesday appear to have renewed the city’s democracy vouchers program, which provides each adult Seattle resident with four $25 vouchers they can donate to local… Continue reading

Ansley Skipper and Drew Penrose write about the obvious solution to gerrymandering: proportional representation. Most modern democracies don’t have legislative districts represented by only one legislator — which is why most don’t struggle with gerrymandering like we do. Instead, a… Continue reading

Rick H. has recently lamented that more media attention is being paid to the current fight over mid-decade redistricting than over the Supreme Court’s potential ruling in the Louisiana Voting Rights Act case. Both are huge developments in the field… Continue reading

Here’s the first of a periodic column I will be doing for SCOTUSblog. It comes with this introductory description: The biggest questions in constitutional law concern the power of the Supreme Court to decide questions differently from what elected officials… Continue reading

I did this Q&A with Harvard Law Today about mid-decade re-redistricting, the reargument in Callais, and other redistricting issues. Here are some excerpts: Redrawing districts for partisan purposes at the beginning of a decade is, unfortunately, absolutely common. What has… Continue reading

Michigan Public Radio: The Michigan Court of Appeals has tossed out a Republican lawsuit challenging Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s official guidance for many overseas voters. The lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee, the Michigan Republican Party… Continue reading

Politico: The New York City Campaign Finance Board denied Mayor Eric Adams millions of dollars in matching funds for the tenth time Wednesday — and suggested in a strongly worded statement that Adams will not be getting a penny… Continue reading

Washington Post: Texas Republicans plan to ramp up the pressure Friday on Democratic state lawmakers who fled to suburban Chicago and other Democratic areas this week to prevent the GOP from giving themselves five more safe congressional districts. Republican… Continue reading

Politico: Alabama must use independently drawn congressional maps that created a second Black-majority district more favorable to Democrats in the state for the rest of the decade, a federal court said Thursday.A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court… Continue reading