As we all know, the Callais reargument potentially poses the momentous question of Section 2’s constitutionality. But it’s worth noting how many steps the Court would have to take to reach that question. Each of these steps represents an offramp… Continue reading

New York Times. Developments in recent weeks signaled that some members of the court think there is more work to be done in removing legal guardrails governing elections. There are now signs that court is considering striking down or severely… Continue reading

I spoke to CNN about Texas and Mid-Decade Redistricting@RedistrictNet @CNN pic.twitter.com/zTk1aqb3vs— Rick Pildes (@RickPildes) August 9, 2025 https://x.com/RickPildes/status/1954187436021432390

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