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#ELB: Watch Video of My Appearance on the PBS News Hour Talking about the New Redistricting Wars and the Implications for the Voting Rights Act
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You can watch at this link: Or read the transcript.
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#ELB: I Spoke with Crooked Media’s “What a Day” About the Troubling Future of the Voting Rights Act in the Hands of the Supreme Court
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Great conversation with Jane Coaston. You can listen here.
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#ELB: “Terms of Engagement – The Great American Redistrict-Off”
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I joined Archon Fung and Stephen Richer on the Harvard Kennedy School’s “Terms of Engagement” podcast to talk about the brewing battle over mid-decade re-redistricting. Texas GOP lawmakers recently...
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#ELB: “Prominent national Democrats ask Josh Kraft to stop using names, likenesses in unauthorized fund-raising push”
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From the Boston Globe: On first blush, the fund-raising solicitation sure looked like it was coming from US Senator Adam Schiff, the California Democrat well known for tangling with Donald Trump. “Hi...
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#ELB: Stanford’s Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily discuss redistricting and the VRA on Stanford Legal podcast
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From Stanford Law: Stanford’s Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily on the redistricting push in Texas, recent signals from the Supreme Court about the Voting Rights Act, and the future of voting and...
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#ELB: “60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats”
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NPR: Contrary to decades of precedent, Republican state officials in at least 15 states contend that private individuals and groups do not have the right to sue to enforce Section 2 because they are...
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#ELB: “Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law”
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Politico: A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a California law restricting AI-generated, deepfake content during elections — among the strictest such measures in the country — notching a win for...
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#ELB: “Texas election map fight swells into national political warfare”
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Washington Post: The fight over Republicans’ push to redraw the Texas congressional map has widened into a national political war, with red and blue states moving to counteract each other and...
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#ELB: “Trump may be off the hook for his 2020 election plot, but his allies aren’t”
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Politico: Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 largely shattered the efforts to prosecute him for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. But dozens of his allies still face state-level criminal charges...
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#ELB: Quote of the Day on the Future of the Voting Rights Act in the Supreme Court (Hoping Luis is Right Handed Just in Case)
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“To me, this is it . . .I would bet my left arm that they will tell us that Section 2 is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.” –Professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, quoted in Democracy Docket.
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#ELB: Free Access to New Cambridge U Press Book: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times”
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This is a great collection edited by RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West, and even better that it is open access. I’m honored to have the final version of my chapter here, “From Bloggers in Pajamas...
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#ELB: My New One at MSNBC Opinion: “Trump started a redistricting war. Only Congress can stop it.”
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I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins: A sudden war over redistricting has broken out in Texas and looks to spread across the country, with California, New York and elsewhere...
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#ELB: Our Amicus Brief Against Mid-Decade Redistricting the Last Time Texas Engaged in the Practice
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The last time Texas engaged in mid-decade re-redistricting, back in 2006, I filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court for myself, Burt Neuborne, and Sam Issacharoff. Our brief urged the Court to...
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#ELB: “DOJ opens grand jury probe of claims Obama officials conspired in 2016 election”
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Washington Post: Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation into allegations that Obama administration officials broke federal laws while investigating Russia’s involvement in...
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#ELB: “Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring ID numbers to cast mail-in ballots”
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Politico: A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas may enforce a state law that invalidates mail-in ballots submitted without a voter’s state identification number or partial Social Security...
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#ELB: “Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement.”
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Washington Post: Over four months, I’ve drafted 65 notes debunking conspiracy theories on topics ranging from airplane crashes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I’ve tried to flag fake artificial intelli...
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#ELB: “Ayotte signs bills to tighten absentee voting, ensure accessible voting”
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New Hampshire Statesman For New Hampshire disability rights advocates, the slate of election-related bills signed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte last week represents a mixed bag. On the one hand, Ayotte...
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#ELB: “G.O.P. Bets Big on Hispanic Voters With New Texas Map”
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New York Times: [A]s far as they are from the political action this week, towns like Laredo along the Southwestern border are crucial to Republicans’ plans to flip five of Texas’ U.S. House seats...
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#ELB: “Schwarzenegger ready to fight Newsom on redistricting”
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Politico: Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to campaign against a partisan gerrymandering plan that current officeholder Gavin Newsom is hoping to place on the November ballot, according to...
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