The following is a guest post from my UCI colleague
Bernie Grofman:
There are many issues of tradeoffs when considering criteria for redistricting. For example, Nick Stephanopoulos in an August 11, 2021
posting to this blog asserted: “Don’t Conflate…
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Thanks, Ned, for your terrific insight over the last couple of weeks. And thanks once again, Rick, for this opportunity to join ELB as a contributor, including picking up daily blogging duty for the next couple of weeks.
Late last…
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Now that I’ve described in
Part I how DRA enables assessing a map’s competitiveness, along with other dimensions, I’ll lay out how DRA makes it possible to compare different maps. To do that, I’ll compare the preliminary map for the…
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Colorado’s congressional districts are being drawn by an independent redistricting commission created in 2018 by “Amendment Y,” a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that voters approved. That amendment also specifies the
criteria the commission is to use. After specifying that districts…
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The 2021 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos,
Election Law–Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017) is now available for free download at this link:
https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2021-election-law-supp-final.pdf.
The 2021 Supplement is up-to-date through the end of the Supreme Court’s October 2020…
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Eliza Sweren-Becker and Michael Waldman have posted
this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Washington Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Historically, the Supreme Court has offered scant attention to or analysis of the Elections Clause, resulting in similarly limited scholarship on…
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From the NYT, my latest
piece:
With the For the People Act on indefinite hold after a
filibuster by Republicans in the Senate on Tuesday, the Voting Rights Act is about to return to center stage in Washington. The…
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Nate Cohn in the NYT:
The demise of the For the People Act — the far-reaching voting rights bill that Republicans blocked in the Senate on Tuesday — will come as a crushing blow to progressives and reformers, who have…
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Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill, 46 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (festschrift symposium honoring Ellen Aprill), draft available,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4353037
Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future in …
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Politico:
Recall candidates seeking to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom must furnish five years of tax returns, Secretary of State Shirley Weber said on Tuesday.Weber’s advisory cemented the state’s position on a disputed piece of California election law. While some…
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GPB:
For the past seven months, a group of Republican lawmakers have engaged in efforts to cast doubt on Georgia’s election integrity and overturn the results of a 2020 presidential race that was counted three times — each count upholding…
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