Watch Video of My Appearance on the PBS News Hour Talking about the New Redistricting Wars and the Implications for the Voting Rights Act
You can watch at this link:
Or read the transcript.
I Spoke with Crooked Media’s “What a Day” About the Troubling Future of the Voting Rights Act in the Hands of the Supreme Court
Great conversation with Jane Coaston. You can listen here.
We discussed my recent Slate piece, The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term.
“Terms of Engagement – The Great American Redistrict-Off”
I joined Archon Fung and Stephen Richer on the Harvard Kennedy School’s “Terms of Engagement” podcast to talk about the brewing battle over mid-decade re-redistricting.
Texas GOP lawmakers recently unveiled a new draft district map, created to flip several House… Continue reading
“Prominent national Democrats ask Josh Kraft to stop using names, likenesses in unauthorized fund-raising push”
From the Boston Globe:
On first blush, the fund-raising solicitation sure looked like it was coming from US Senator Adam Schiff, the California Democrat well known for tangling with Donald Trump.
“Hi — this is Adam Schiff,” the… Continue reading
Stanford’s Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily discuss redistricting and the VRA on Stanford Legal podcast
From Stanford Law:
Stanford’s Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily on the redistricting push in Texas, recent signals from the Supreme Court about the Voting Rights Act, and the future of voting and redistricting in America.
The episode can be… Continue reading
“60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats”
NPR:
Contrary to decades of precedent, Republican state officials in at least 15 states contend that private individuals and groups do not have the right to sue to enforce Section 2 because they are not explicitly named in the … Continue reading
“Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law”
Politico:
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a California law restricting AI-generated, deepfake content during elections — among the strictest such measures in the country — notching a win for Elon Musk and his X platform, which challenged… Continue reading
“Texas election map fight swells into national political warfare”
Washington Post:
The fight over Republicans’ push to redraw the Texas congressional map has widened into a national political war, with red and blue states moving to counteract each other and ambitious politicians around the country vowing aggressive partisan… Continue reading
“Trump may be off the hook for his 2020 election plot, but his allies aren’t”
Politico:Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 largely shattered the efforts to prosecute him for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.But dozens of his allies still face state-level criminal charges for their roles in the plot. The five cases against… Continue reading
Is the Current House Biased Toward Democrats?
According to some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the answer is yes.
Earlier this year, Nick Stephanopoulos, Eric McGhee, and Chris Warshaw published an essay in the Washington Post which showed that after the 2020 round… Continue reading
Quote of the Day on the Future of the Voting Rights Act in the Supreme Court (Hoping Luis is Right Handed Just in Case)
“To me, this is it . . .I would bet my left arm that they will tell us that Section 2 is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.”
–Professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, quoted in Democracy Docket.
Free Access to New Cambridge U Press Book: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times”
This is a great collection edited by RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West, and even better that it is open access. (Full book pdf.) I’m honored to have the final version of my chapter here, “From Bloggers… Continue reading
My New One at MSNBC Opinion: “Trump started a redistricting war. Only Congress can stop it.”
I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins:
A sudden war over redistricting has broken out in Texas and looks to spread across the country, with California, New York and elsewhere considering tit-for-tat Democratic partisan gerrymanders to… Continue reading
Our Amicus Brief Against Mid-Decade Redistricting the Last Time Texas Engaged in the Practice
The last time Texas engaged in mid-decade re-redistricting, back in 2006, I filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court for myself, Burt Neuborne, and Sam Issacharoff. Our brief urged the Court to hold that states have no power under… Continue reading