“2022 CPA-Zicklin Index Expanded to Russell 1000; Dramatic Gap in Political Disclosure and Accountability Between S&P 500 and Smaller Companies”

October 11, 2022, 1:50 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

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”

October 11, 2022, 10:20 amredistrictingRick Hasen

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”

October 11, 2022, 7:19 amredistrictingRick Hasen

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

October 11, 2022, 7:15 amabsentee ballots, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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

“Kanye’s antisemitic tweet could be a preview of social media’s future”

October 11, 2022, 7:08 amcheap speechRick Hasen

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

“Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer”

October 11, 2022, 7:04 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

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

“The Malapportionment of the US House of Representatives: 1940–2020”

October 11, 2022, 6:56 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

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

Redistricting Discussion at Heart of Leaked Racist Discussion by LA City Council Members; Jessica Levinson on the Legal Implications

October 10, 2022, 5:17 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

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

AALS Section on Election Law Call for Submissions: Annual Scholarship Award

October 10, 2022, 1:45 pmUncategorizedDerek Muller

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

My New Paper: “Donald Trump Should Remain Deplatformed from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Despite the High Bar That Platforms Should Apply to the Question of Deplatforming Political Figures”

October 10, 2022, 7:34 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

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

“Why Little-Noticed State Legislative Races Could Be Hugely Consequential; Races in state legislatures are often quiet and turn on local issues like roads or schools. But a Supreme Court case could give these legislative bodies nearly absolute power over federal elections.”

October 10, 2022, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Justice Jackson Joins the Supreme Court, and the Debate Over Originalism”

October 10, 2022, 7:31 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

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.”