Torey Dolan
@toreydolan.bsky.social
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. 👀
Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀
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UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164
UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alit...
The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...
electionlawblog.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164
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The first mid-decade redistricting case is headed to the Supreme Court's shadow docket. Here's why the so-called Purcell Principle--which counsels against enjoining redistricting maps close to an election--should not apply here:
electionlawblog.org?p=153101
electionlawblog.org?p=153101
Mid-Decade Redistricting and the Purcell Principle #ELB
Yesterday, a three-judge district court preliminarily enjoined Texas’s mid-decade congressional redistricting map. This case will be promptly appealed to the Supreme Court, and it will be the first of...
electionlawblog.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The first mid-decade redistricting case is headed to the Supreme Court's shadow docket. Here's why the so-called Purcell Principle--which counsels against enjoining redistricting maps close to an election--should not apply here:
electionlawblog.org?p=153101
electionlawblog.org?p=153101
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NEWS: This is a 2-1 decision of a three-judge district court blocking the mid-decade Texas redistricting map as a racial gerrymander. It will (undoubtedly) be appealed, and it goes directly to the Supreme Court.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
EL PASO DIVISION
§
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
ALEXANDER GREEN, et al.,
Plaintiff-Intervenors,
con con con con con
EP-21-CV-00259-DCG-JES-JVB
[Lead Case]
v.
§
All Consolidated Cases
GREG ABBOTT, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Texas, et al.,
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
JEFFREY V. BROWN, United States District Judge:!
In August 2025, the State of Texas enacted a new electoral map to govern elections for the U.S. House of Representatives (the "2025 Map"). Claiming that the 2025 Map is racially
discriminatory, six groups of Plaintiffs (the "Plaintiff Groups") ask the Court to preliminarily
enjoin the State from using the 2025 Map for the 2026 elections.
For the reasons explained below, the Court PRELIMINARILY ENJOINS the State from using the 2025 Map. The Court ORDERS that the 2026 congressional election in Texas shall
proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021 (the "2021 Map").](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreib3i5jmuws2fzu6zq7t6hucfrg46pmvz5ofh2qoxsqjekkrs5kdge@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
NEWS: This is a 2-1 decision of a three-judge district court blocking the mid-decade Texas redistricting map as a racial gerrymander. It will (undoubtedly) be appealed, and it goes directly to the Supreme Court.
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Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!
This column laments the “feminization” of law and academia.
As a woman in legal academia, I love that my presence is so powerful as to ruin “the workplace.”
Stay mad.
As a woman in legal academia, I love that my presence is so powerful as to ruin “the workplace.”
Stay mad.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This column laments the “feminization” of law and academia.
As a woman in legal academia, I love that my presence is so powerful as to ruin “the workplace.”
Stay mad.
As a woman in legal academia, I love that my presence is so powerful as to ruin “the workplace.”
Stay mad.
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it me, the workplace ruiner
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
it me, the workplace ruiner
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Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
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i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"
More news about states trying mid-decade redistricting 🙃
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
More news about states trying mid-decade redistricting 🙃
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NEW: @amstatnews.bsky.social urges Congress not to adopt a House funding bill provision that would take away the Census Bureau’s ability to “inquire” more than twice to get a survey response because it would "undermine the nation’s statistical infrastructure"
www.amstat.org/docs/default...
www.amstat.org/docs/default...
www.amstat.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NEW: @amstatnews.bsky.social urges Congress not to adopt a House funding bill provision that would take away the Census Bureau’s ability to “inquire” more than twice to get a survey response because it would "undermine the nation’s statistical infrastructure"
www.amstat.org/docs/default...
www.amstat.org/docs/default...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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New evidentiary privilege just dropped.
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
New evidentiary privilege just dropped.
The number one item on my to-do list today was to update my course canvas…🙃
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The number one item on my to-do list today was to update my course canvas…🙃
I’ll be at Univ. of Penn Law School this week talking about America and multiracial Democracy alongside some very impressive people this week! Check it out:
electionlawblog.org?p=152632
electionlawblog.org?p=152632
Thurs & Fri: Univ. of Penn Law Review Multiracial Democracy Symposium #ELB
You can register for and get more info on the symposium here. In light of recent attacks on multiracial democracy, I’m honored to co-organize The Future of Law & Multiracial Democracy Symposium this...
electionlawblog.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’ll be at Univ. of Penn Law School this week talking about America and multiracial Democracy alongside some very impressive people this week! Check it out:
electionlawblog.org?p=152632
electionlawblog.org?p=152632
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NEW: Supreme Court's no longer set to discuss on Nov. 7 if it will hear North Dakota case on whether private individuals & groups — whose lawsuits have been main way of enforcing Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 — can keep suing. Change comes day after rehearing case on Section 2's constitutionality
October 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: Supreme Court's no longer set to discuss on Nov. 7 if it will hear North Dakota case on whether private individuals & groups — whose lawsuits have been main way of enforcing Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 — can keep suing. Change comes day after rehearing case on Section 2's constitutionality
The Congressional map that led to a retrogression of Native American voting power couldn’t viably be challenged because of the Gingles preconditions. Because no reservation community in the U.S. is sufficiently large to constitute a majority in a Congressional district.
My response to the Louisiana v. Callais argument is to say anyone that thinks Gingles preconditions are a low bar hasn’t been a voter-side voting rights attorney. See this quote from the Chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting commission this last cycle.
October 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Congressional map that led to a retrogression of Native American voting power couldn’t viably be challenged because of the Gingles preconditions. Because no reservation community in the U.S. is sufficiently large to constitute a majority in a Congressional district.
My response to the Louisiana v. Callais argument is to say anyone that thinks Gingles preconditions are a low bar hasn’t been a voter-side voting rights attorney. See this quote from the Chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting commission this last cycle.
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My response to the Louisiana v. Callais argument is to say anyone that thinks Gingles preconditions are a low bar hasn’t been a voter-side voting rights attorney. See this quote from the Chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting commission this last cycle.
I don’t know what the doctrine is, but I’d count this as political speech protected under 1A.
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I don’t know what the doctrine is, but I’d count this as political speech protected under 1A.
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Applications for Fall 2026 are open and should be completed by Nov. 16. Learn more: buff.ly/a3D8dFc
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October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
For over 50 years, the William H. Hastie Fellowship Program has provided aspiring scholars an outstanding opportunity to prepare for a career in law teaching.
Applications for Fall 2026 are open and should be completed by Nov. 16. Learn more: buff.ly/a3D8dFc
Applications for Fall 2026 are open and should be completed by Nov. 16. Learn more: buff.ly/a3D8dFc
I’ve been the “register to vote” person in the family since I was 18 and I can feel myself becoming the “go to jury duty” person.
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’ve been the “register to vote” person in the family since I was 18 and I can feel myself becoming the “go to jury duty” person.
THIS IS TERRIFYING!
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...
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
October 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
THIS IS TERRIFYING!
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Few things get your blood pumping more than a good two-hour argument over standing, right?
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Few things get your blood pumping more than a good two-hour argument over standing, right?
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Me from 2000 to 2024: I think I could win Survivor.
Me in 2025: Survivor might be a nice break from the U.S.
Me in 2025: Survivor might be a nice break from the U.S.
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Me from 2000 to 2024: I think I could win Survivor.
Me in 2025: Survivor might be a nice break from the U.S.
Me in 2025: Survivor might be a nice break from the U.S.