Politico: Democrats are weighing whether they can use their 2028 primary calendar to try to rebuild their party’s strength in the South amid aggressive GOP gerrymanders. As Democratic National ...
The decision in DSCC v. Trump (D.D.C.) is here. Judge Nichols first finds no standing for any parties, including distinguishing Bost from Clapper and emphasizes that, at this stage, any injury is too ...
The South Carolina Senate effectively killed an effort to redraw the state’s congressional lines to eliminate longtime Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn’s seat in Congress, stalling out an effort by ...
Axios: A Florida judge kept Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional map alive Tuesday, allowing the state to implement a Republican-friendly plan while three state lawsuits continue. … Hawkes found ...
Iowa Democrats will travel to Washington, D.C., this week to pitch a streamlined caucus plan they hope will convince national party leaders that Iowa deserves another shot to be at the front of the ...
Nate Cohn and Eve Washington wrote this New York Times piece arguing that race-blind (and party-blind) redistricting in the South would produce about as many minority-opportunity districts as existed ...
Rick H. blogged about the remands in a pair of Section 2 cases. I find myself inclined toward the view that remand was appropriate, for two reasons. First, both cases had district courts that found an ...
Justice Jackson dissented from the order, on the sensible grounds that Callais did not consider the right to sue question. Of course the stakes are much lower now that Section 2 is essentially dead no ...
If the Supreme Court had announced its decision to narrow the Voting Rights Act a few weeks earlier, states could have prepared, rolling out new maps before candidates were registered and votes were ...
NYT: Soon after the 2020 presidential race, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, was given a “Democracy Action Hero” award by Arnold Schwarzenegger for standing up to President ...
Following up on this March 10 post, there was a court status update in the dispute. The DNC is suing to obtain information through FOIA as to government plans, if any. Here’s the latest status update ...
A nice win for local democracy, and a nice reminder of the work that can be done in state courts under state statutes and constitutions. After Quincy’s City Council voted to give its Mayor a ...
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