This looks to be a great hybrid event at the University of Wisconsin’s State Democracy Research Initiative on October 3.

Must-read: Yesterday, federal District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump Administration’s federalization of the National Guard in Los Angeles to assist in immigration law enforcement violated ...

AP: A judge has ruled that Utah lawmakers must proceed with redrawing the state’s congressional district map right away, pointing to Texas and California in rejecting their argument that the job can’t ...

I filed this amicus brief today in Callais in conjunction with lawyers from Mehri & Skalet. The brief makes three main arguments: (1) Section 2 is unlike the policies on which the Court has previously ...

This cert petition follows from the Supreme Court’s order putting the Eighth Circuit ruling on hold pending resolution of this cert petition. See also my earlier Slate coverage of the stakes.

AJC: Key Georgia lawmakers Tuesday called for a rapid test-run of hand-marked paper ballots in this year’s elections, switching from touchscreens in some polling places. The rush to try paper ballots ...

WSJ: While running for Congress last year, Republican Rob Bresnahan—like most Americans—hated the idea of lawmakers making money by trading individual stocks in elected office and said he wanted to ...

The gerrymandering wars have laid bare the unique Achilles’ heel at the heart of our structural dysfunction: We give partisan institutions immense power over the rules of elections. No other peer ...

Here’s a transcript of a bit of my Slate Amicus podcast conversation with Dahlia Lithwick: Can you just explain to us what happens if Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer the mechanism by ...

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, says the agency will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering ...

The framers of the Constitution — assembling in 1787, a time when political parties did not exist — chose to leave it to the state Legislatures to decide how to select presidential electors. … ...