Republicans have been redrawing congressional districts this year at President Trump’s behest, but so far it hasn’t seemed to be enough to deny Democrats a reasonable path to control of the House of ...

SCOTUSblog: The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to strike down a 2024 congressional map that a group of voters has challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering – that ...

POLITICO:  …House and Senate candidates are due to file quarterly fundraising reports to the Federal Election Commission by midnight Wednesday. The reports, which cover July through September, include ...

Lifting up this matter from early October in case you missed it as well as commentary from Brad Smith and Eric Wang in WSJ and coverage in Current Federal Tax Developments (hat tip to Ellen Aprill): ...

From David Stid’s essay today, titled ‘First, Do No Harm!’ Five Steps Philanthropy Should Take to Bolster Liberal Democracy: Across a range of issues — e.g., criminal justice, education, the ...

I confess, I’ve found the litigation saga surrounding Callais quite complicated (including what, precisely, re-argument was supposed to accomplish, and why Justice Thomas wrote separately this summer ...

Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

As I explained back in August, the Supreme Court reached and and in the most opaque way on a late Friday afternoon in mid-summer, the Court turned a ho-hum racial gerrymandering case where the court ...

This is a big week for voting rights oral arguments. Yesterday, before the New York Court of Appeals, I argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in Clarke v. Town of Newburgh, a challenge to the town’s ...

American democracy may be under attack, but billionaire mega-donors are fully engaged in protecting their own interests. And as we head into what will undoubtedly be another multibillion-dollar ...

Career prosecutors at the Justice Department do not believe criminal charges are warranted from an investigation seeking to discredit an earlier F.B.I. inquiry into Russia’s attempt to tilt the 2016 ...