I flagged an important 4th Circuit opinion rejecting Virginia’s claims that it was immune from suit under the Virginia Readmission Act, which plaintiffs’ assert prevents the Commonwealth from ...

Armchair Lehigh Valley and The Morning Call have a report on some of the latest in 2020 fallout: A prominent Lehigh Valley Republican and major supporter of President Trump has agreed to pay $500,000 ...

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos) 2024 Casebook Supplement (Free) ...

The FTC announced its approval today of a consent agreement governing the acquisition by Omnicrom of The Interpublic Group – both offer (inter alia) media buying services.  The agreement allows the ...

With the hotly-contested ranked choice primary in NYC on Tuesday, voters in NYC (and well beyond) are getting a lot of publicity about how ranked-choice voting works. The New Republic offers praise ...

Yale Youth Poll The most intriguing finding is about partisanship (framed not as party-identification but as party-vote): Still, on almost all social issues, youth voters take more “liberal” positions ...

Washington Post article enumerates in concrete terms the post-Watergate guardrails that are under attack, including: As the article notes, conservatives see these reforms as an unconstitutional ...

Ohio’s redistricting process has been, charitably, a mess. WLWT in Ohio focuses on the coming summer redraw of Ohio’s congressional lines, which were valid only for 2022 and 2024 under Ohio’s ...

In the Alabama redistricting case, readers will recall the May 8 unanimous 571-page-opinion from one judge first appointed by Reagan and two judges appointed by Trump; the opinion said, inter alia, ...

Bloomberg Law Senate Parliamentarian rules that the Senate Republican proposal to restrict the ability of judges to hand down initial rulings against the federal government is subject to the Byrd Rule ...

From the Alabama Reflector, with the subhead based on a Brennan Center report: Nearly 9 in 10 state lawmakers reported facing insults and 4 in 10 facing harassment and threats. And these threats ...

Travis Crum noted at the time that this decision made an ideal candidate for “bail-in” back into the preclearance regime under section 3 of the Voting Rights Act, which remains a viable (but ...