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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

At Brookings, these authors have a piece suggesting more uncertain than in most initial reports about the full partisan consequences of Louisiana v. Callais. The piece offers details about specific ...

The following is a guest post from Chad Topaz, author of the forthcoming book,  Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: Commentary on Callais has emphasized the ...

AP: In the second Trump administration’s first 15 months in office, district court judges ruled it was violating an order in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of issues, including mass layoffs, ...

Between now and the next presidential election, more states will enact more gerrymanders — and those gerrymanders could go much further than ever before. Adding to the redraws they’ve already made ...

Can you talk for a minute about the ways in which Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion keeps insisting he’s not overturning the framework laid out in the 1986 case Thornburg v. Gingles. He ...

A Grand Bargain is Emerging in the Supreme Court’s Trump Cases, But Chaos May be Ahead, Slate, February 8, 2024 Donald Trump is Asking the Supreme Court for the Bush v. Gore Treatment, Slate, February ...