A group of plaintiffs in a case challenging the State’s redistricting map have asked the trial court to reopen testimony in the case in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to call a ...

CBS news reports here that Emil Bove, the current Deputy Attorney General and President Trump’s nominee to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, has “declined to rule out the possibility of the ...

A panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction against a Maine ballot initiative that prohibited “foreign governments and ‘foreign ...

Glenn Thrush and Julian Barnes reporting here. From the article: The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who oversaw the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to ...

Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Michael Gates, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, have sent this letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Ken ...

Rick Pildes covered the exciting news that Heather Gerken is going to head the Ford Foundation, after a successful stint as Yale Law School dean. And even better, as the NYT headline puts it, Ford ...

Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation (forthcoming 2025), draft available, The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law ...

The ACLU SoCal, ALC, CA Common Cause, and PANA are excited to share that registration is now open for “More Voices, Stronger Democracy: The 50th Anniversary of Section 203,” a statewide summit on ...

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to ...

Yunior Rivas with the Democracy Docket has the story here. From Yunior’s write-up: In a case where the 8th Circuit has severely weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), Native American voters in North ...

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...

This article from Politico, quoting Democratic lawmakers, makes the case. From the article: A Donald Trump-backed effort to gerrymander Texas would boost the GOP’s attempts to cling to its razor-thin ...