CNN:
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a challenge to Texas state legislative maps that critics say intentionally dilute minority voting power and result in an illegal racial gerrymander.
At the center of the dispute is Senate District 10, which… Continue reading
With Elon Musk firing much of his staff, restoring Donald Trump after an unscientific Twitter poll (and after promising to set up a content moderation council to consider the issue and then abandoning that promise and deleting the tweet), restoring… Continue reading
WaPo:
Arizona’s Republican attorney general has demanded answers from Maricopa County about widespread issues with printers that plagued voting on Election Day, injecting new uncertainty into a fraught post-election dynamic just days before the county is required to certify the… Continue reading
FOX 10 Phoenix:
Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates has confirmed that he moved to an undisclosed location for his safety after security concerns connected to the 2022 midterm elections.
Deputies from the sheriff’s office are also providing a security… Continue reading
Didi Kuo (Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University) and I are excited to share our new article, Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy, which is out today in the Columbia Law Review Forum.… Continue reading
NYT:
When he stepped inside a Phoenix polling place on the morning of Election Day on the way to work, Kevin Bembry was told that the tabulation machines were not functioning properly and he might want to vote somewhere… Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, I expressed skepticism that the Republican Party’s wins in Bucks County in the off-cycle 2021 election “amount[ed] to the GOP roaring back to life in the Pennsylvania suburbs.” In that post, I grumbled that:… Continue reading
N.Y. Times and everyone is reporting on Elon Musk’s decision to reinstate Trump after polling Twitter. It is so nice to finally have an answer, after all these years, to who “the people” are: 15 million Twitter users.… Continue reading
Petitioners in Moore v. Harper argue that state supreme courts cannot apply state constitutional provisions limiting partisan gerrymandering to stop state legislatures from gerrymandering congressional districts. Doing so, they argue, would usurp the power of the legislature which “alone” has… Continue reading
WaPo:
On Friday night, a Twitter account associated with Lake’s campaign posted a video of a portion of the call that captures Liddy cursing and raising his voice. The Lake campaign did not respond to a request for the full… Continue reading
When NC filed its opening brief in the independent state legislature case, Moore v. Harper, I commented on this blog that NC’s brief wavered between taking (1) the extreme position that state courts cannot impose any substantive limits on state… Continue reading