Yunior Rivas with the Democracy Docket has the story here. From Yunior’s write-up: In a case where the 8th Circuit has severely weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), Native American voters in North ...

Updated discussions on remedies, medical malpractice, and intentional torts to persons from newly approved portions of the Restatement (Third) of Torts Expanded coverage on a wide range of topics from ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has put redrawing the State’s congressional map on the agenda for a special legislative session. Stories here, here, and here. From one of the news stories: Republican Texas ...

A new lawsuit seeking to redraw Wisconsin’s congressional district boundary lines was filed on Tuesday, less than two weeks after the state Supreme Court declined to hear a pair of other lawsuits that ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation ...

Glenn Thrush and Julian Barnes reporting here. From the article: The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who oversaw the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to ...

Andrew Albright has published this student note in the California Law Review. Here is the abstract: This Note explores the idea of paying Americans to cast their ballots as a mechanism to increase ...

From the Democracy Docket, we get this warning on the SAVE Act. The Save Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when they are registering ...

The Brennan Center has conducted this analysis, concluding that at least $1.9 billion was spent on online ads in the 2024 election. From the report: Political advertisers spent $1.9 billion on online ...

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to ...

Florida State University’s Election Law Center now has a place in state statute, even if it didn’t receive full funding. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation (SB 892) formally establishing the ...

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...