WaPo:
The rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, sent an Instagram post Friday suggesting fellow musician Sean “Diddy” Combswas controlled by Jewish people — a common antisemitic trope. Within hours, Instagram had removed the post and locked his account.That sent Ye… Continue reading
AP:
Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state’s list of residents with driver’s licenses.The office of… Continue reading
New article from Ruoxi Li in PS. Abstract:
In the latest round of the apportionment of the US House of Representatives following the 2020 Census, the State of New York lost a seat by an extremely small margin: if a… Continue reading
From the LA Times bombshell report:
Still, much of the conversation focused on the maps that had been proposed by the city’s redistricting commission. Martinez voiced frustration that the panel had proposed removing a number of economic assets from her… Continue reading
From an email I recently sent to the AALS Section on Election Law listserv:
The AALS Section on Election Law is soliciting submissions for its annual scholarship award. The award is given to a single work that exemplifies excellence in… Continue reading
I have posted this short paper on SSRN (prepared for this week’s Stanford/UCLA conference on replatforming Donald Trump). Here is the abstract:
This short position paper, prepared for the Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet/UCLA Safeguarding Democracy Project conference,… Continue reading
Great new Adam Liptak Sidebar column in the NYT, with the subhead: “In arguments in a voting rights case, the new justice said history must inform constitutional interpretation, making a liberal case for an idea often associated with conservatives.”
for taking the reins of ELB over the last two weeks. It’s a huge effort to keep this going, and having these great scholars pitching in makes a big difference. Thank you!
A federal district court judge in Washington, DC just issued a decision in New York v. Biden (originally filed as New York v. Trump). Here are excerpts of New York’s claim under the Elections Clause, filed back in October 2020… Continue reading
This order from the Delaware Supreme Court affirms in part and reverses in part an earlier Court of Chancery decision resolving the constitutionality of the two statutes. The Court of Chancery found that the Delaware General Assembly, in adopting same… Continue reading