This point from Steve Vladeck seems indisputably right (and Justice Kavanaugh indisputably wrong): …Kavanaugh also attempted to suggest that Alabama would be entitled to stays of the lower-court rulings even under the court’s ordinary three-part standard. In a footnote,… Continue reading

Since I’ve seen some confusion about this on twitter, I wanted to clarify this point. If the Section 5 pre-clearance regime was still in place, the Department of Justice would still have pre-cleared Alabama’s plan — as the Obama administration… Continue reading

Eric McGhee, Mike Migurski, and Chris Warshaw posted this new paper comparing the newly enacted congressional and state legislative district plans to their predecessors. The main findings are: (1) The national House map is substantially fairer but still nontrivially skewed… Continue reading

Inside this must-read Andy Kroll story on the 2020 election hysteria on the Trumpist right is this nugget: Ramthun also received an eight-page analysis from John Eastman, the same lawyer who wrote the infamous memos arguing for how Pence… Continue reading