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Torey Dolan

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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School. An Indian writing about Federal Indian Law/Voting Rights. Citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma living on Ho Chunk Land📍

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 25

Now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · 1d

THIS IS TERRIFYING!

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 1d

2. In another response to post-confirmation hearing questions from Senate Commerce Committee members, Meyer avoids directly answering whether she would refuse to produce inaccurate statistics or data if asked by Trump or Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick:
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Question 2: Yes or No: If you were asked to produce inaccurate statistics or data by the Secretary or the President, would you refuse?
Answer: The President and Secretary Lutnick would never ask me to produce inaccurate statistics or data. Additionally, the President and Secretary Lutnick have made clear their priority for Americans to have accuracy and integrity in statistics and data. If confirmed, I look forward to carrying out this shared commitment with the teams at BEA and the Census Bureau and I will comply with the law.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Few things get your blood pumping more than a good two-hour argument over standing, right?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Me from 2000 to 2024: I think I could win Survivor.

Me in 2025: Survivor might be a nice break from the U.S.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 1d

I am begging orgs that bring cases and post press releases about decisions in those cases to POST THE OPINIONS THEIR PRESS RELEASES ARE ABOUT

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to discuss on Nov. 7 whether to take up a North Dakota case about whether private individuals and groups — whose lawsuits have been the main way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 — can continue to sue
www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone knows of quality legal-expert write ups on the scope and impact of NSPM-7, please send them my way.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

It was a blunt 31-page opinion issued by a judge Trump appointed to the bench in his first term in office declaring that Trump’s effort to federalize Oregon National Guard troops likely “exceeded his statutory authority” and likely violated the Tenth Amendment.

Law Dork on Saturday’s TRO:

Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon

"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.

www.lawdork.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: My SCOTUS term preview in the Guardian. It focuses on the Voting Rights Act case - and how that case illustrates the long-running campaign against Reconstruction & civil rights that appears in much of what SCOTUS & POTUS do. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

Hasty drafts in the midst of profoundly consequential litigation, and all in service of a monstrous program of mass deportation. I simply refuse to accept that's what the legal academy should be about.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m proud to be part of the attorney team representing the Navajo Nation as an amicus in Louisiana v. Callais.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is critical to protecting voters in Indian Country. #NativeVote

www.supremecourt.gov

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Sep 2

This event was a highlight of last semester for me. MSU are great hosts and Quinn has a wonderful knack for identifying creative, engaged, and enthusiastic scholars! It was one of those events that leave you excited about your work. Highly recommend!

Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm very happy to share that I will be hosting the *Second* Annual Democracy and Public Law Works-in-Progress Conference at the Michigan State University College of Law on April 3–4, 2026! Law scholars (current and aspiring), I'd love to host you!

Application:
msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

picture of the Michigan State University College of Law building

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 31

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 31

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 28

What Louisiana is doing in the Voting Rights Act case — see @rickhasen.bsky.social: electionlawblog.org?p=151805 — is a more extreme iteration of what Mississippi did in Dobbs, blowing up a case at SCOTUS by bringing an extreme argument late in the game b/c the SCOTUS majority signaled it wants it.

With Louisiana Essentially Flipping Sides in Callais Case Before Supreme Court and Arguing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional, Full Defense Shifts to Voting Rights Groups #ELB

As noted yesterday, Louisiana essentially flipped sides in the Lousiana v. Callais case. In an earlier brief, Louisiana argued that its congressional districts were not a racial gerrymander because po...

electionlawblog.org

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 25

Now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 20

I mean this with no disrespect, but we shouldn’t conflate the experiences of privileged voters with all voters. Many communities regularly face government led intimidation when it comes to civic engagement.

Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Voter protection efforts have been organizing against government led intimidation.

I know this because I’ve worked on those efforts and have worked against police presence outside/inside the polls in communities of color in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Aug 20

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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Kip M. Hustace @kipmhustace.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very pleased to share my newly published "Indigenizing Legal Republicanism," out with the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. What can a neorepublican lens (eliminating domination) offer Indigenous Peoples Law? How can Indigenous philosophy refine legal republicanism?

Indigenizing Legal Republicanism

This Article proposes and evaluates a synthesis of neorepublican legal theory and Indigenous peoples law and philosophy. Neorepublican legal theory, a critical

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Can’t wait to dig into this! It looks great!

Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very timely and very important!

Chris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pleased to announce that my new article, “Voting Rights and Private Rights of Action: An Empirical Study of Litigation Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 1982-2024” is forthcoming in the Florida State University Law Review and available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Voting Rights and Private Rights of Action: An Empirical Study of Litigation Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 1982-2024

<div> The Voting Rights Act is perhaps the most effective civil rights law ever enacted, bringing millions of Americans who have historically been discriminate

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 13

I hate this framing from The New York Times. It assumes that Smithsonian exhibits are "divisive or ideologically driven." The White House hasn't provided a single example of such an exhibit. Even more laughable is the assumption that the Trump administration has any interest in historical accuracy.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections electionlawblog.org?p=151533

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections #ELB

We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...

electionlawblog.org

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you so much for the support and kind words! And for organizing such a great conference last spring with so many great scholars.

Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · Aug 6

I know it is a scary time for Democracy and Voting Rights, but Prof. Atiba Ellis @atibaellis.bsky.social encouraged me this past Spring at the MSU Democracy Works in Progress conference organized by @yeargain.bsky.social to continue thinking hopefully. This piece is a statement of hope.

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