Watch Archived Video of My Interview with Dahlia Lithwick About Her Great New Book, “Lady Justice”
Great conversation, and even better book! Thanks to JUDJ for facilitating the conversation.
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“Kentucky Law Journal Symposium Friday: “Drawing the Lines: Redistricting After the 2020 Census”
Great lineup! Details. Videos of each session will be posted to the KLJ website by early next week.
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Jacksonville Racial Gerrymandering Decision
In a lengthy opinion today, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction barring Jacksonville from holding any elections under its newly drawn city council districts. Seven of those districts, the court held, are likely unconstitutional racial gerrymanders: four “packed” districts… Continue reading
“Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society.”
NYT:
Millions of dollars in television advertisements blasting schools for teaching critical race theory and assailing corporations like BlackRock, Uber and American Airlines for catering to “woke politicians.”A lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court to radically reshape how federal … Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with Rep. Adam Schiff: “Lessons from the January 6 Committee: A conversation with Representative Adam Schiff”
Latest video for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project webinar series:
“Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms”
NYT:
Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening again in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, researchers say, but with an insidious twist: The social media… Continue reading
Read the Position Papers for Friday’s Stanford/UCLA Conference, “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?”
Very diverse group of papers from a set of very smart people for this Friday’s conference (not too late to register for the virtual webinar):
Chinmayi Arun
Guy Charles
Evelyn Douek
Katie Fallow
Katie Harbath
Rick Hasen
David … Continue reading
“New evidence to show Trump was warned of violence on Jan. 6”
WaPo:
The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showinghow President Donald Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that… Continue reading
“This QAnon Secretary of State Candidate Is Promising to Reinstall Trump in 2024; ‘President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election,’ Jim Marchant lied at a rally on Saturday night.”
Baude and McConnell: “The Supreme Court Has a Perfectly Good Option in Its Most Divisive Case; In Moore v. Harper, the justices should not side with the views of either party.”
William Baude and Michael McConnell in The Atlantic:
In a constitutional republic like ours, legislatures ultimately derive their authority from the people. This authority is conveyed through written constitutions that charter the government, vest power in different branches, and… Continue reading
“2022 CPA-Zicklin Index Expanded to Russell 1000; Dramatic Gap in Political Disclosure and Accountability Between S&P 500 and Smaller Companies”
Release:
Today, the nation’s premier benchmarking of U.S. companies for transparency and accountability of their political spending expands its coverage, from rating S&P 500 companies to evaluating the entire Russell 1000.The CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability is… Continue reading
“How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law”
ProPublica:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed. Late last year, the state’s Republican legislature had drawn congressional maps that largely kept districts intact, leaving the GOP with only a modest electoral advantage.DeSantis threw out the legislature’s work and redrew… Continue reading
“Why Republicans Could Prevail in the Popular Vote but Lose in the House”
Nate Cohn for the NYT:
Over the last few decades, we’ve gotten accustomed to the idea that Democrats could easily win the popular vote but struggle to win control of government.This time, there’s a chance of a reversal. After years… Continue reading
Supreme Court Vacates as Moot Third Circuit Decision About Counting Timely But Undated Absentee Ballots in Pennsylvania
Today’s order means the loss of a helpful precedent. Here’s how the cert. petition put the issue:
Pennsylvania requires voters to sign and date a declaration when they vote by mail. In a private lawsuit filed after a local… Continue reading