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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1h

October 16 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=152405

October 16 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: "Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Election" #ELB

Thursday, October 16 Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Elections (webinar) 12:15pm-1:15pm PTRegister here.Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School, Moon Duchin, Director, Data...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1h

“Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling” electionlawblog.org?p=152409

"Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling" #ELB

Politico: Democratic voting rights groups are preparing for a nightmare scenario if the Supreme Court guts a key part of the landmark civil rights-era legislation, the Voting Rights Act — a very real ...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1h

“Justice Kennedy, Off the Bench but Still Rendering Opinions” (Including a New Revelation About Bush v. Gore) electionlawblog.org?p=152411

"Justice Kennedy, Off the Bench but Still Rendering Opinions" (Including a New Revelation About Bush v. Gore) #ELB

Adam Liptak interviews Justice Kennedy: As a justice, he leaned mostly right, siding with the court’s conservatives to strike down campaign finance laws, to gut the Voting Rights Act and to expand the...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 16h

“Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court” electionlawblog.org?p=152399

"Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court" #ELB

Bolts: In a sense, the GOP’s mission is straightforward: If voters remove Donohue, Dougherty, and Wecht, the current 5-2 Democratic majority would fall to a 2-2 tie. Republicans would then have a shot...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 16h

“The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again” electionlawblog.org?p=152401

"The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again" #ELB

David Gans for Slate: In the two decades John Roberts has served as chief justice, the Supreme Court he presides over has repeatedly decimated the Voting Rights Act, striking a series of savage blows ...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 17h

“Emergency Relief Sought to Protect Upcoming Elections From Trump-Vance Administration Plot to Facilitate Illegal and Inaccurate Voter Roll Purge” electionlawblog.org?p=152403

"Emergency Relief Sought to Protect Upcoming Elections From Trump-Vance Administration Plot to Facilitate Illegal and Inaccurate Voter Roll Purge" #ELB

LWV release: With elections rapidly approaching in locations around the nation, the League of Women Voters, along with three individual plaintiffs, asked a court for emergency relief in a class action...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 21h

Starting in one hour: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

“Legislature passes new map in Utah, creating 2 more competitive seats” electionlawblog.org?p=152386

"Legislature passes new map in Utah, creating 2 more competitive seats" #ELB

Politico: Utah lawmakers passed a new congressional map on Monday that presents Democrats with two new pickup opportunities in the red state, a potential win for the party as it tries to respond to Re...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

Common Cause Files 54 Complaints Against the Trump Administration for Ethics Violations electionlawblog.org?p=152388

Common Cause Files 54 Complaints Against the Trump Administration for Ethics Violations #ELB

Release via email: Common Cause, a national, nonpartisan government watchdog, filed 54 separate complaints against the Trump Administration for violating the Hatch Act, the Anti-Deficiency Act, and t...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

“State supreme court battles move to Pennsylvania, where 3 Democratic justices hope to keep seats” electionlawblog.org?p=152390

"State supreme court battles move to Pennsylvania, where 3 Democratic justices hope to keep seats" #ELB

AP: There are no $1 million giveaways to voters, cheesehead hats or even candidate debates. Elon Musk is nowhere to be found. Yet the stakes in the Pennsylvania election this fall are very much the sa...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

“Amid ongoing investigation into found ballots, Sec. Bellows underscores Maine election security” electionlawblog.org?p=152392

"Amid ongoing investigation into found ballots, Sec. Bellows underscores Maine election security" #ELB

Maine Morning Star: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is confident law enforcement will ultimately uncover why 250 official ballots were allegedly delivered to a Newburgh home in an Amazon packa...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

Must-Watch Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar Today: Nate Persily on Lessons from 2024 on the Risks to the 2026 Elections electionlawblog.org?p=152394

Must-Watch Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar Today: Nate Persily on Lessons from 2024 on the Risks to the 2026 Elections #ELB

You can register to watch here. Nate will be in person at UCLA and I’ll be moderating the event with a live audience.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term.
My *cover story* in @thenation.com :)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

New York: “Printing error led to filled-in absentee ballots being sent to Rush voters” electionlawblog.org?p=152380

New York: "Printing error led to filled-in absentee ballots being sent to Rush voters" #ELB

WROC: A printing error led to absentee voters in Rush receiving ballots that were already filled out. Over the last couple of weeks, 33 residents in Rush received their absentee voting ballots in the ...

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5thgenfljane.bsky.social @5thgenfljane.bsky.social · 2d

"...many... — more...than last year — don’t want to speak on the record...people with stature in their world...they’re worried about retribution, for their law firms or their family members, if they draw Trump’s ire."

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d

“Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency” electionlawblog.org?p=152374

"Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency" #ELB

Emily Bazelon for the NYT: Last year, in the months before the 2024 presidential election, the magazine surveyed 50 members of what might be called the Washington legal establishment about their expec...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d

“Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency” electionlawblog.org?p=152374

"Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency" #ELB

Emily Bazelon for the NYT: Last year, in the months before the 2024 presidential election, the magazine surveyed 50 members of what might be called the Washington legal establishment about their expec...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d

“House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down” electionlawblog.org?p=152376

"House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down" #ELB

Time: Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her w...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary: