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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
Lawmakers may face pressure to return to Montgomery this summer to consider a new congressional map. The decision also raises questions about how far its effects could reach, including whether city ...
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