Yes, and strengthening Congress must include eliminating the filibuster. Congress cannot govern if the Senate cannot legislate.

Reach out to the faculty at your law school. Even if it’s been a while. They will have advice and are likely to offer help reading drafts and mooting job talks. They also can explain the timing of the overall process.

I’m not sure there is one.

Unchecked power leads to corruption, not efficiency.

Beautiful! I know MN a bit am always curious about the locations or specific regions of your photos.

Because children are included in the population base counted for apportionment purposes, parents already enjoy enhanced voting power through a form of virtual representation of their kids.

The Court used a congruence and proportionality standard to answer that question in the context of the capacious rights protected by the 14th Amendment. But there is little historic or pragmatic reason to impose such rigorous judicial review in the context of the much more focused 15th Amendment.

So a key question in the case is how much deference the Court should give to Congress to decide what is necessary to do that.

The Fifteenth Amendment isn’t just a limit on race discrimination; it is also a grant of power to Congress to enact legislation remedy or prevent preventing it. That’s what the VRA is.

The first post addresses the limits and importance of Section 2 of the VRA. Those who are not familiar with this area of law may find this real-world example particularly illuminating:

electionlawblog.org?p=152512