Travis Crum
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Professor @WashULaw writing about voting rights and constitutional law. #FirstGen
Joined September 2018
Preclearance under the Voting Rights Act was designed to stop the game of whack-a-mole that was Southern defiance of federal court orders. Alabama did just that in 2023. Unfortunately, Alabama dodged the hammer once again. My thoughts @ElectionLawBlog: .
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Yesterday, the three-judge district court in the Alabama congressional redistricting litigation declined to bail-in the State to the VRA’s preclearance regime. You can find the district court’s...
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Happening today!.
Tomorrow, there's a big hearing on whether to bail-in Alabama under the Voting Rights Act, meaning that it would have to get federal approval to enact any new congressional redistricting plans through the 2030 Census. Here's my thoughts @ElectionLawBlog:.
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Tomorrow, there's a big hearing on whether to bail-in Alabama under the Voting Rights Act, meaning that it would have to get federal approval to enact any new congressional redistricting plans through the 2030 Census. Here's my thoughts @ElectionLawBlog:.
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Tomorrow, the three-judge district court in the Alabama congressional redistricting litigation will hold a hearing on whether to bail-in Alabama to the VRA’s preclearance regime. If bailed-in,...
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What's taking the Supreme Court so long to re-schedule last Term's big voting rights case?.
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Earlier today, Rick Pildes flagged the Court’s inexplicable month-long delay in issuing a re-argument order in Louisiana v. Callais, last Term’s—and now next Term’s—major Shaw case. I agree with...
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New paper alert! Along with my co-authors (Professor Susan Appleton and Hannah Keidan), I've posted a @WashULRev symposium foreword, "The Curiously Minor Role of Minor v. Happersett," on SSRN.
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District Court holds that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters when it defied SCOTUS's decision in Allen v. Milligan. The upshot: Alabama may be required to preclear congressional redistricting plans through 2030 cycle.
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The court’s 571-page opinion is here. This decision is on remand from the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This is the latest decision in the long-running Section 2 litigation against...
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RT @rickhasen: #ELB: Breaking: DDC enjoins Trump Elections Executive Order
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The 120-page opinion is here. The order is here. The preliminary injunction in LULAC v. Executive Office of the President was issued by Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the...
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RT @rickhasen: #ELB: My Thoughts on the Court Order Enjoining Part of Trump EO on Elections: The district court’s opinion is careful, persu….
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Travis has the main coverage at ELB, but I’ve posted some additional thoughts at Bluesky (read the whole thread):
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My thoughts on the DDC's injunction of parts of the Trump Elections Executive Order are over at @ElectionLawBlog:.
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The 120-page opinion is here. The order is here. The preliminary injunction in LULAC v. Executive Office of the President was issued by Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the...
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I made the longer form version of this argument back in 2021 in response to the first Trump administration:.
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For my first contributor post @ElectionLawBlog, I wrote about why the Trump Voting Executive Order should encourage us to revise Section 2 of the VRA to apply to the federal government:.
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Hi everyone. Travis Crum here. Long-time guest blogger. Newly minted contributor. Looking forward to participating in the conversation more. Thanks to Rick for having me. Last week, President Trump...
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So excited to be joining @ElectionLawBlog as a contributor!!! Thanks @rickhasen!.
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I’m very pleased to announced that Travis Crum of Wash. U. is joining ELB as a contributor. Travis has written frequent guest posts already for ELB, so he should be familiar to many of you. He’s...
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RT @TheEconomist: The outcome of Louisiana v Callais could affect control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterms. We break….
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Louisiana v Callais could affect control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterms
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Over @ElectionLawBlog, I have a recap of today's oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais:.
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The following is a post from Travis Crum: Here’s a recap of today’s oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais. At the outset, a short summary of what Callais is about. Callais is an old-school, 1990s-s...
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Over the weekend, @RickPildes posted a thoughtful response to my @ElectionLawBlog post about Louisiana v. Callais. Here's my rebuttal about why overturning Shaw is still a good idea and why Section 2 litigation can still be used to unpack districts.
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The following is a guest post from Travis Crum: Over the weekend, Rick Pildes published a response to my post—which built on a recent essay—calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Shaw’s racial...
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RT @TravisCrumLaw: On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a racial gerrymandering challenge to Louis….
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The following is a guest post from Professor Travis Crum: On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a Shaw challenge to Louisiana’s congressional redistricting...
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On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a racial gerrymandering challenge to Louisiana's congressional map. On @ElectionLawBlog, I have a preview of the case: .
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The following is a guest post from Professor Travis Crum: On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a Shaw challenge to Louisiana’s congressional redistricting...
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There's other questions surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment: 1) whether Congress can impose a deadline; 2) if so, can it extend the deadline; and 3) whether Biden's statement has any relevance. But the rescission question shouldn't be the one that stops the ERA's adoption.
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With the ERA in the news, I'm re-upping my article, The Lawfulness of the Fifteenth Amendment. It examines States's purported rescissions of the 14th and 15th Amendments. These rescissions were ultimately rejected by Congress and Secretaries of State.
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