Toward the end of his argument in Callais, Hashim Mooppan seemed to assert that neutering Section 2 would affect only about fifteen congressional districts. In his words, “there are only 15 ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation ...

The Ashland County Democratic Committee, through a Lakewood attorney, filed a civil suit Thursday in U.S. District Court, alleging the group’s federal civil rights were violated in September. The suit ...

In his essay today, Free Assembly for a Free People, Jan-Werner Müller draws from his forthcoming book, “Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces.” He addresses the ...

The state’s highest court rejected arguments from several counties on Thursday that a state law approved to move most elections from odd to even-numbered years violates the state Constitution. The ...

Missouri seeks to revive the independent state legislature theory, this time its by insisting that there’s a clear-statement rule. I may have more to say about this case in the near future. In the ...

At issue is a push from a group called People Not Politicians to place a recently passed congressional map up for a statewide vote in 2026. The proposal would transform Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s ...

From Daniel Stid’s essay today, titled ‘First, Do No Harm!’ Five Steps Philanthropy Should Take to Bolster Liberal Democracy: To be clear, responsible pluralism ultimately depends not on what specific ...

I want to return to one possible outcome in Callais—holding that compliance with Section 2 isn’t a compelling state interest—that I’ve previously flagged but hasn’t gotten much attention. Here are ...

As I explained back in August, the Supreme Court reached and and in the most opaque way on a late Friday afternoon in mid-summer, the Court turned a ho-hum racial gerrymandering case where the court ...

SCOTUSblog: The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to strike down a 2024 congressional map that a group of voters has challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering – that ...