by Noah Feldman If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the U.S. over the past decade, just take a look at the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. That ultraconservative court took a substantial bite out of voting rights when it ...
by Robert Weiner and Olivia Ardito Over the past few years, the legitimacy of American elections has been called into question by Democrats and Republicans alike. Both sides can point fingers and claim the opposing party may try to cheat, scheme or tamper with the election results in ...
by Noah Feldman According to the Supreme Court, it’s perfectly fine for state legislatures to draw congressional districts according to political party — they just can’t gerrymander by race. This simple-sounding rule poses a serious practical problem, however, in places where ...
New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson has used his center seat on the seven-member Court of Appeals, the highest bench in the state, to try to help the Democrats win some congressional contests. While we, like Wilson, want the Democrats to take over enough of the 11 districts that ...
by Erwin Chemerinsky If a decision handed down by a conservative federal appeals court last week is allowed to stand, it will gut what remains of one of the most important federal laws enacted in my lifetime, the Voting Rights Act. An 8th Circuit Court of Appeals panel held that no ...
by Jackie Calmes Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right, gun controls, clean water safeguards and now affirmative action has ...