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The new map was approved just days ago by the GOP-controlled Legislature and was put into place one week after the governor’s office delivered it to state legislators. Democrats have repeatedly called the map “illegal” and a power grab… Continue reading

The post “DeSantis signs Florida’s new GOP-friendly congressional map into law — but lawsuits likely loom” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

“The Republicans should say — we should take over the voting in at least 15 places,” Trump said. “The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” His comments came less than a week after the FBI had… Continue reading

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And here’s Michael Che on SNL… Continue reading

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Still bruising from anger on the left over the court’s monumental decision three years earlier to overturn Roe v. Wade, Roberts rattled off a series of stats underscoring that his court — the Roberts… Continue reading

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Following Democrats’ bruising losses in the 2024 election, the chief executive of ActBlue, the platform that had helped Democrats raise $4 billion for that year’s contests, gathered staff for a four-day retreat.

One of the first topics of the… Continue reading

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The post Nick Bagley, at NYU Democracy Project, With a Critique of Public-Sector Unions appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Now to Article III. The Framers did not expect that the judiciary would usurp the powers of the first branch. They created a Supreme Court and gave Congress power to establish lower courts as well. They… Continue reading

The post Norm Ornstein: “SCOTUS’s Brazen Power Grab Guts Voting Rights” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

The day after the Supreme Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order purporting to… Continue reading

The post Latner, Charles, and Fuentes-Rohwer: “The best response to the Supreme Court’s Callais ruling: proportional representation” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Willie Simon stood outside the Memphis motel where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, now a museum dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement.

Days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key … Continue reading

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The post “Breaking down the redistricting arms race following the Supreme Court’s VRA ruling” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. insisted in Wednesday’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that he was not overruling the U.S. Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act precedents, but critics say it leaves the landmark 1965 law a dried… Continue reading

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Press Robinson had to show he could read, before he was allowed to become the first member of his family to vote in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he filed a trailblazing lawsuit that cleared the way for him… Continue reading

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In 1965, the year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, it did not take much detective work to discover how some of the South’s most powerful white politicians felt about their Black neighbors.

Senator James Eastland, a Democrat from… Continue reading

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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 legal weapon.

In a new interview, Assistant… Continue reading

The post “‘Lines are going to change’: Trump DOJ confirms it will target minority voters nationwide after Supreme Court ruling” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

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, deportations, spending cuts and immigration practices,… Continue reading

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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 Act.

Ivey called a special legislative session… Continue reading

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With its decision this week in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court gutted a core part of the Voting Rights Act, Congress’s landmark prohibition on voting rules that have the effect of… Continue reading

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