Justice Jackson dissented from the order, on the sensible grounds that Callais did not consider the right to sue question. Of course the stakes are much lower now that Section 2 is essentially dead no ...

If the Supreme Court had announced its decision to narrow the Voting Rights Act a few weeks earlier, states could have prepared, rolling out new maps before candidates were registered and votes were ...

Rick H. blogged about the remands in a pair of Section 2 cases. I find myself inclined toward the view that remand was appropriate, for two reasons. First, both cases had district courts that found an ...

Nate Cohn and Eve Washington wrote this New York Times piece arguing that race-blind (and party-blind) redistricting in the South would produce about as many minority-opportunity districts as existed ...

NYT: Democrats are struggling to respond to a major redistricting setback in Virginia, with some party leaders discussing an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea for trying to restore a ...

Opponents of last week’s special session are counting on a 2022 constitutional amendment to provide a legal challenge to the special primary election bills passed by the Alabama Legislature should ...

You can read the 4-3 ruling at this link. At issue was whether Virginia’s General Assembly followed the rules set forth in the Constitution for qualifying a proposed constitutional amendment for the ...

In a 6-3 shadow docket order, and over a dissent by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court effectively allowed Alabama to re-draw its congressional redistricting map. You can find the order here.

The legislation—which Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a Democrat, has not yet signed—is expected to apply to for-profit companies, so-called dark-money nonprofits, unions, and chambers of commerce, ...

Virginia’s attorney general has said the state will go to the U.S. Supreme Court. My initial take was that there are no federal issues at all to raise. But now it sounds like Va may raise an ...

The US Supreme Court over the past two decades refined a principle that says federal judges must generally avoid making decisions that alter election rules close to an election, out of fear of ...

The chair of the California Democratic Party said there are no current plans to redraw maps — just months after voters approved a constitutional amendment authorizing a mid-decade redistricting backed ...