Can you talk for a minute about the ways in which Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion keeps insisting he’s not overturning the framework laid out in the 1986 case Thornburg v. Gingles. He ...
The following is a guest post from Chad Topaz, author of the forthcoming book, Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: Commentary on Callais has emphasized the ...
This one requires a bit of inside baseball. When the Supreme Court formally issues its decision, it does not send it judgment down to the lower court immediately. Instead, there is a period of 25 days ...
Wednesday’s disastrous Supreme Court opinion in Louisiana v. Callais reveals one thing, it’s this: Justice Samuel Alito is a coward. In that opinion, he’s either lying to himself or to the rest of us ...
Between now and the next presidential election, more states will enact more gerrymanders — and those gerrymanders could go much further than ever before. Adding to the redraws they’ve already made ...
Watch for two more Callais-pieces coming from me soon.
NYT: Not long ago, Democrats had dreams of restoring fairness to America’s grotesquely gerrymandered political maps. Their party began a major push for independent commissions to draw congressional ...
On a 6-3 vote, with all Republican appointees in favor and all Democratic appointees opposed, the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act as it applies to ...
Future Section 2 Claims. As Kagan says in her dissent (and as I previously argued about the SG’s proposal, which the Court adopted basically verbatim), this is the effective end of Section 2 racial ...
The charge stems from an incident nearly a year ago, when Mr. Comey, vacationing on the North Carolina coast, posted a photograph on social media showing seashells arranged to say “86 47,” … Continue ...
Opinion
“Ron DeSantis unveils new Florida congressional map that would give the GOP an extra four seats”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed the new redistricted congressional map for the state, which shows the GOP gaining an extra four seats. Should the state legislature, which holds a Republican ...
Ruth Greenwood has posted this article about state voting rights acts and movement law, forthcoming in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Here’s the abstract: State voting rights ...
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