(Photo Credit: White House, Public Domain) Justice Brett Kavanaugh is expected to vote to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Board’s single-director structure in Seila Law. v. CFPB, in a major test of executive power the High Court agreed last week to tackle this term. The Court announced on Wednesday it invited former Solicitor General … [Read more...]
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Asylum, Dark Money and Gorsuch Book Tour Lead Up to Supreme Court Term
President Donald J. Trump, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and Anthony M. Kennedy, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Oct. 8, 2018, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian, Public Domain) The Supreme Court is not scheduled to convene until October 7, … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Too Partisan to Hear Landmark NRA Challenge, Democratic Senators Allege
The Roberts Court, November 30, 2018. Seated, from left to right: Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel A. Alito. Standing, from left to right: Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brett M. Kavanaugh. (Photograph by Fred Schilling, … [Read more...]
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Republican Gerrymander
A three-judge panel in North Carolina has struck down that state's existing map of legislative districts, ruling that the maps represented an unacceptable partisan gerrymander designed to systematically advantage Republican candidates. Republican leaders in the state have said that they do not intend to appeal the ruling, meaning that it will … [Read more...]
Michigan Voted To Create an Independent Redistricting Commission. Republicans Are Suing To Destroy It.
Last year, e-mails emerged in Michigan dating back to the state's 2011 redistricting effort. With the state government totally controlled by Republicans in the aftermath of the 2010 Tea Party wave, Republicans were able to gerrymander the closely divided state to give their party a decisive advantage in the state legislature and the congressional … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Review: Roberts Opens “Pandora’s Box” in Census Ruling
In the June 27th decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, Chief Justice John Roberts partially agreed with the liberal majority in ruling that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ motive for including the citizenship question on the 2020 census was a subterfuge. Ross, who oversees the census, said that the citizenship question was intended to … [Read more...]
Michigan Congressional Map Gerrymandered
On Thursday federal judges threw out Michigan’s congressional and state legislative maps, calling them unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. Politico reports that the case is on hold till the outcome of cases already pending at the Supreme Court which will likely determine whether Michigan redraws its districts before the 2020 election. A … [Read more...]
Court Approves New Map of Legislative Districts in Virginia
The Court of Federal Appeals (Lewis F. Powell Courthouse) and the skyline of Richmond, Virginia, in the early morning from the foot of the Virginia Capitol grounds, Richmond, Virginia, USA - CC 3.0 A panel of federal judges from the Fourth Circuit ordered the state of Virginia to adopt a new map of legislative districts, a decision that could … [Read more...]
Lawsuits Challenging Wisconsin GOP’s Lame Duck Power Grab Multiply
In the wake of the November midterms, Republicans in Wisconsin joined with their GOP colleagues across the country in attempting to use a lame duck legislative session to kneecap newly elected Democrats and push through conservative priorities. Democrats in Wisconsin won the state's governor's mansion and attorney general's office. Republicans … [Read more...]
House Democrats Move on Sweeping Legislation to Reform American Elections
When Democrats won their smashing victory in the 2018 midterms, they did so in the face of a wave of GOP-led voter suppression efforts. Those schemes certainly weren't new – Republicans across the country have fought to restrict access to the ballot for years, knowing that it's often their easiest path to remaining in power. Democrats, however, … [Read more...]
