AP: In the second Trump administration’s first 15 months in office, district court judges ruled it was violating an order in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of issues, including mass layoffs, ...

The Trump administration confirmed Friday it will target Black and Latino-majority voting districts across the country — using the Supreme Court’s recent decision gutting the Voting Rights Act as a ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey took her state a step closer to redrawing its congressional lines on Friday, following the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week to limit enforcement of the Voting Rights ...

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 ...

At Brookings, these authors have a piece suggesting more uncertain than in most initial reports about the full partisan consequences of Louisiana v. Callais. The piece offers details about specific ...

Elie Mystal in The Nation: Callais, the Supreme Court ruled for the white people. It holds that the Voting Rights Act cannot be used to force Louisiana to draw a second majority-minority district. The ...

I’ve used it in articles, classes and presentations to the public. It shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells ...

As Roberts first revealed that the case of Louisiana v. Callais would be delivered, he said Alito had the majority opinion. Roberts, whose seniority gives him the assignment power, had turned the case ...

The chair of the California Democratic party says he wants to get rid of the state’s idiosyncratic “open primary”, calling it a failure that risks pitting a crowded field of Democratic candidates ...

I’ve published an essay with that title at Bloomberg Law. Here are some excerpts: The 5-4 Gingles decision, which gave birth to the requirement of safe minority districting, was decided toward the end ...