Axios: A Florida judge kept Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional map alive Tuesday, allowing the state to implement a Republican-friendly plan while three state lawsuits continue. … Hawkes found ...

The South Carolina Senate effectively killed an effort to redraw the state’s congressional lines to eliminate longtime Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn’s seat in Congress, stalling out an effort by ...

NYT: Soon after the 2020 presidential race, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, was given a “Democracy Action Hero” award by Arnold Schwarzenegger for standing up to President ...

If the Supreme Court had announced its decision to narrow the Voting Rights Act a few weeks earlier, states could have prepared, rolling out new maps before candidates were registered and votes were ...

Rick H. blogged about the remands in a pair of Section 2 cases. I find myself inclined toward the view that remand was appropriate, for two reasons. First, both cases had district courts that found an ...

Justice Jackson dissented from the order, on the sensible grounds that Callais did not consider the right to sue question. Of course the stakes are much lower now that Section 2 is essentially dead no ...

Nate Cohn and Eve Washington wrote this New York Times piece arguing that race-blind (and party-blind) redistricting in the South would produce about as many minority-opportunity districts as existed ...

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 ...

The legislation—which Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a Democrat, has not yet signed—is expected to apply to for-profit companies, so-called dark-money nonprofits, unions, and chambers of commerce, ...

The Justice Department has moved on two fronts to chip away at some of the last traces of its vast investigation into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aligning itself ever more closely with ...

With Democratic efforts to redraw Virginia’s congressional boundaries in shambles for now, two central figures in the fight are at odds over what to do next. Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York ...

The Fulcrum. Chad Vickery, Katherine Ellena and I weighing in on an alternative to litigating election claims (with the added bonus of being mandated by federal law): More lawsuits, plus less trust in ...