You can find the complaint here. The main argument in the case is that plaintiffs engaged in a racial gerrymander by making race the predominant factor in drawing district lines without s compelling ...

NYT: When the Justice Department announced a week and half ago that it would send monitors to watch California’s elections, it didn’t say who exactly would be doing the monitoring. For Orange County, ...

This is a story in Sportico about HLS’s Election Law Clinic’s amicus brief on behalf of a group of billionaires arguing that Maine’s limit on Super PAC contributions doesn’t burden their speech and ...

Maine voters rejected a referendum on Tuesday that would have required a photo ID to cast a ballot and that proposed multiple changes to Maine’s increasingly popular absentee voting process. The ...

All three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices on Tuesday’s ballot for retention will remain on the bench, following an unprecedented and closely watched retention election that eclipsed previous ...

Prominent conservatives, including the president, sounded familiar alarms about voter suppression and other efforts to manipulate the vote on Election Day, without presenting evidence.” From the body: ...

On the eve of the government shutdown, the U.S. (EAC) quietly posted a press release to its website. While the announcement didn’t spark much notice, it could result in severe consequences for future ...

California Democrats’ effort to block President Trump’s agenda by increasing their party’s numbers in Congress was overwhelmingly approved by voters on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the victory ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84. His legacy is significant in a range of domains, but I wanted to recount four small election law anecdotes about him. First, Cheney was ...

Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1521 (2018). Edward B. Foley, Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism ...

The nationalization of politics also provides an opening to solve this problem. Congress has the power to do what it did in 1842: Enact a statute to bring both parties … Continue reading Joey Fishkin: ...