The Supreme Court’s decision to set Louisiana v. Callais for reargument next term suggests that the Voting Rights Act’s respite from the conservative Court’s attacks is likely over. It is, therefore, ...

Congratulations to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken on this new phase of her career. See this NYT story.

Interesting analysis with data from Nataniel Rakich @baseballot on the limited risk incumbents face in primary elections, even when party voters are generally unhappy with their party. The Democratic ...

Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, ...

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that ...

Trump’s motion to dismiss the case can be found here.

This is an excerpt from Rick Hasen’s contribution to the Balkinization Symposium on  Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment: The rise of the nine-figure donor raises two ...

As he looks back at the defeat of former Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, the thing that keeps bothering Andrei Cherny, a onetime Democratic speechwriter and state party leader, is that he didn ...