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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
This one requires a bit of inside baseball. When the Supreme Court formally issues its decision, it does not send it judgment down to the lower court immediately. Instead, there is a period of 25 days ...
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 ...
On a 6-3 vote, with all Republican appointees in favor and all Democratic appointees opposed, the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act as it applies to ...
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 ...
Wednesday’s disastrous Supreme Court opinion in Louisiana v. Callais reveals one thing, it’s this: Justice Samuel Alito is a coward. In that opinion, he’s either lying to himself or to the rest of us ...
Future Section 2 Claims. As Kagan says in her dissent (and as I previously argued about the SG’s proposal, which the Court adopted basically verbatim), this is the effective end of Section 2 racial ...
The charge stems from an incident nearly a year ago, when Mr. Comey, vacationing on the North Carolina coast, posted a photograph on social media showing seashells arranged to say “86 47,” … Continue ...
NYT: Not long ago, Democrats had dreams of restoring fairness to America’s grotesquely gerrymandered political maps. Their party began a major push for independent commissions to draw congressional ...
Watch for two more Callais-pieces coming from me soon.
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