“Another lawsuit challenges NC redistricting, this time using new legal theory of ‘retaliation'”

October 29, 2025, 11:00 amredistrictingRick Hasen

WRAL: Opponents of North Carolina’s new congressional districts filed a new legal challenge Monday — one that leans on a new interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in hopes of blocking the map from being used in future elections. The… Continue reading

5th Circuit permits mid-decade redistricting in Tarrant County, rejects partisan, racial gerrymandering claims

October 29, 2025, 10:42 amcourt decisions, redistrictingDerek Muller

Judge Willett, joined by Judges Barksdale and Duncan, in Jackson v. Tarrant County: Here, Tarrant County chose to redraw the precinct lines used to elect its County Commissioners—and to do so mid-cycle. The Challengers, a group of voters reassigned… Continue reading

“Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state’s redistricting push”

October 29, 2025, 7:47 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Politico reports.

Brendan Nyhan and I Discuss with NPR’s Tamara Keith What’s Behind Trump’s Trolling of an Unconstitutional Third Term

October 29, 2025, 7:27 amauthoritarian threats in US, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Listen here.

This Week at the NYU Democracy Project, We’re Running Essays on Election Related Issues

October 29, 2025, 6:00 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

On Monday, we ran Brad Smith’s skeptical essay about election reforms, titled Too Much to Ask: Voting Reforms Can Only Do So Much, which I blogged about on Monday. Yesterday, Josh Sellers published an essay with a more optimistic take,… Continue reading

Preparing for next year’s midterms

October 28, 2025, 7:05 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

This morning Rick linked to David Graham’s story for the December issue of The Atlantic, entitled Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way. As someone who wrote a law review article in advance of the 2020… Continue reading

“Johnson says he’s spoken with Trump about ‘the constrictions of the Constitution’ on a third term”

October 28, 2025, 12:28 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said he has spoken with Donald Trump about the possibility of the president seeking a third-term but that he sees no path for it as any change to the US Constitution would be… Continue reading

“New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong and shows bipartisan momentum for money-in-politics reforms, including proposed Montana ballot measure”

October 28, 2025, 12:16 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

Issue One release: New polling commissioned by Issue One and conducted this month by YouGov reveals that overwhelming majorities of Americans — and Montanans — broadly believe that large-scale political spending by corporations, dark money groups, and wealthy donors undermines… Continue reading

“Maine and Texas are the latest fronts in voting battles, with voter ID, citizenship on the ballot”

October 28, 2025, 12:15 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP reports.

Donald Trump Files Appellate Brief Raising Strong Arguments to Overturn His New York Conviction in Stormy Daniels Campaign Finance Case

October 28, 2025, 10:30 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

You can find the brief here. The first argument raised is that of federal preemption, and there are a number of other strong arguments as well. This was not the case that should have been brought against Donald Trump.… Continue reading

“How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?”

October 28, 2025, 10:08 amredistrictingRick Hasen

My explainer at the UCLA Newsroom.

“Secretary LaRose refers more than 1,200 criminal cases to DOJ”

October 28, 2025, 10:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Portsmouth Daily Times: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced on Tuesday that his office has referred 1,200 criminal cases to the United States Department of Justice for consideration of federal prosecution. “Ohio has earned its reputation as the… Continue reading

“Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It.”

October 28, 2025, 10:06 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Susan Greenhalgh for Slate: Earlier this month, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems had been sold to a former Republican election official. The announcement that the second-largest U.S. voting system vendor would be in the hands of a self-declared partisan… Continue reading

“Newsom to Redistricting Donors: Stop Giving Me Money”

October 28, 2025, 7:59 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed onto his regular Zoom call with his political brain trust last Friday as they ticked through the latest developments in the high-stakes redistricting measure headed for a vote next week. They were far ahead… Continue reading

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