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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Illiberalization Of American Election Law: A Study In Democratic Deconsolidation, James A. Gardner
The Illiberalization Of American Election Law: A Study In Democratic Deconsolidation, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
For many years, the dominant view among American election law scholars has been that the U.S. Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence of democratic practice got off to a promising start during the mid-twentieth century but has since then slowly deteriorated into incoherence. In light of the United States’ recent turn toward populist authoritarianism, that view needs to be substantially revised. With the benefit of hindsight, it now appears that the Supreme Court has functioned, in its management of the constitutional jurisprudence of democracy, as a vector of infection—a kind of super-spreader of populist authoritarianism.
There is, sadly, nothing unusual these days …
State Lawmakers Must Step In To Remedy Supreme Court Voting Rights Blunder, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
State Lawmakers Must Step In To Remedy Supreme Court Voting Rights Blunder, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
Online Publications
This June, a 6-3 Supreme Court decision further eroded the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by upholding an Arizona law that disqualifies ballots cast by voters at any poll site other than the one assigned — an administrative technicality that has been shown to disproportionately impact minority communities in multiple states.
Election Observation Post-2020, Rebecca Green
Election Observation Post-2020, Rebecca Green
Faculty Publications
The United States is in the midst of a crisis in confidence in elections, despite the many process protections baked into every stage of election administration. Part of the problem is that few Americans know just how rigorous the protections in place are, and most Americans have no concept of how modern elections are run. Election observation statutes are intended to provide a window for members of the public to learn about and oversee the process and to satisfy themselves that elections are fair and that outcomes are reliable. Yet in 2020, in part due to unforeseen pandemic conditions, election …
An Open Governor’S Seat, Open Constitutional Question, And The Need For An Answer, Samuel Steele Mclelland, James R. Baxter
An Open Governor’S Seat, Open Constitutional Question, And The Need For An Answer, Samuel Steele Mclelland, James R. Baxter
Arkansas Law Notes
Another election cycle always means a renewal of fresh lawsuits and legal questions, and 2022 is no exception. the announcement of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s run for Governor of Arkansas reignites an interesting aspect of Arkansas’s Constitution: must a candidate for Governor live in the State of Arkansas for seven consecutive years, immediately preceding taking office? A final ruling by the Arkansas Supreme Court will give clarity and stability going forward for the most important elected position in the state.
Purcell In Pandemic, Wilfred U. Codrington Iii
Purcell In Pandemic, Wilfred U. Codrington Iii
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
New York State Constitutional Amendment Explainer, Marissa Zanfardino, Jeffrey M. Wice
New York State Constitutional Amendment Explainer, Marissa Zanfardino, Jeffrey M. Wice
Redistricting Resources
No abstract provided.
On The Ballot For Nov. 2, 2021: The Constitutional Amendment On Redistricting, Jeffrey M. Wice, Todd Breitbart
On The Ballot For Nov. 2, 2021: The Constitutional Amendment On Redistricting, Jeffrey M. Wice, Todd Breitbart
Redistricting Resources
On November 2, 2021, New York State voters will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment revising the redistricting process to be based on the 2020 census. If the constitutional amendment is approved, the changes will take effect on January 1, 2022. This amendment is necessary to address delays in the census created by the pandemic and to accommodate New York State’s change from a September primary to an earlier June primary for both federal and state elections. These changes compressed the time needed to complete the redistricting. Without these changes, it is possible that the new districts will not …
Summary Of New York State Redistricting Cases, Nicholas Stabile, Marissa Zanfardino
Summary Of New York State Redistricting Cases, Nicholas Stabile, Marissa Zanfardino
Redistricting Resources
This article contains summaries for all of the major redistricting cases in New York State. This article was created with assistance by Stephanie Hernandez, David Romero, and Scott Matsuda.
S.2670 U.S. Senate Redistricting Bill, Marissa Zanfardino
S.2670 U.S. Senate Redistricting Bill, Marissa Zanfardino
Redistricting Resources
This bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Charles E. Schumer on August 6, 2021 and its consideration was blocked by the Senate on August 11, 2021. It outlines national reform for redistricting.
Legitimacy, Legality, Legacy, And The Life Of Democracy, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Legitimacy, Legality, Legacy, And The Life Of Democracy, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Trump Administration challenged notions of good governance. It challenged our expectation of majoritarian legitimacy to the extent only a minority of voters elected President Donald Trump in 2016. It challenged our demands for reasoned decision-making insofar as the President sought to dismantle the administrative state and govern by fiat. It challenged our expectation of checks and balances in the way it approached appointments and removals to accumulate power at the expense of congressional design. These challenges sound in different legal theories, but they all reflect shattered expectations of good governance. And yet, the most lasting legacy of the Trump …
One Year On Since Ge2020: Thinking Afresh For The Post-Covid Era, Tan K. B. Eugene
One Year On Since Ge2020: Thinking Afresh For The Post-Covid Era, Tan K. B. Eugene
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan opined that even as political competition in Singapore sharpens, a deeper understanding and broader consensus must develop on critical issues. He believes that remaking Singapore to be a fairer, more just, and compassionate society in a post-Covid world is a key responsibility for Parliament.
A Way To Guarantee Voting Rights, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
A Way To Guarantee Voting Rights, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
Online Publications
In 2004, state legislator Andrea Stewart-Cousins faced nine-term Republican Nick Spano in a state Senate election. The election was very close, certified in favor of Spano by 18 votes.
A Small Change To Save Thousands Of Votes, Rachel Landy, Jarret Berg
A Small Change To Save Thousands Of Votes, Rachel Landy, Jarret Berg
Online Publications
In 2004, then-County Legislator Andrea Stewart-Cousins faced off against the nine-term incumbent Nick Spano in an election for state Senate. The race was extremely close, certified in Spano’s favor by 18 votes.
Impact Of New York’S “Wrong Church” Ballot Disqualification Rule In The 2020 General Election, Rachel Landy, Jarret Berg
Impact Of New York’S “Wrong Church” Ballot Disqualification Rule In The 2020 General Election, Rachel Landy, Jarret Berg
Online Publications
In 2020, more than 13,800 New York voters, eager to cast their ballots in the General Election, walked into a polling place and presented themselves to poll workers, who were unable to locate those voters in the poll book, even though they were registered. Poll workers directed them to vote provisionally by affidavit ballot and each did so. However, as officials determined several days later, these voters had all turned out and cast a ballot at a poll site in their county that was different from the one assigned to them, a fatal technical pitfall under New York’s election law. …
Saskatchewan 2024: Making Change Happen - New Democratic Party Of Saskatchewan Election Review Panel Report, Gerry Scott, Judy Bradley, Modeste Mckenzie, Craig M. Scott, Brian Topp
Saskatchewan 2024: Making Change Happen - New Democratic Party Of Saskatchewan Election Review Panel Report, Gerry Scott, Judy Bradley, Modeste Mckenzie, Craig M. Scott, Brian Topp
Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents
No abstract provided.
Undefeated - Updates From 2020 Election Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated - Updates From 2020 Election Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated Exhibit Panels
Undefeated - Updates From 2020 Election poster
A graphic and statistical report on the results of the 2020 election
A Political Canary: An Empirical Study Of The Correlation Between Hatch Act Complaints And How The Electoral College Votes, Raimund Stieger
A Political Canary: An Empirical Study Of The Correlation Between Hatch Act Complaints And How The Electoral College Votes, Raimund Stieger
Upper Level Writing Requirement Research Papers
The American public witnesses hundreds, if not thousands, of violations of the Hatch Act—an administrative law designed to keep partisan politics out of Government—each year. This study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between the number of Hatch Act complaints reported in the fiscal year leading up to a Presidential election and how divisive the political landscape is during that Presidential election. Political divisiveness was defined as how close the winning Presidential candidate was to receive fifty percent of the electoral college. To assess the theory that an increase in Hatch Act complaints is an early indicator of …
Time To Mail It In? A Survey Of 2020 Voting Rights Issues In Arkansas And Recommendations For More Inclusive Elections, Kim Vu-Dinh
Faculty Scholarship
The highly contagious COVID-19 pandemic, combined with over fifty lawsuits brought by former President Donald Trump, made the general election of 2020 one of the most controversial in the history of the United States. Accusations of voter disenfranchisement proliferated across the nation and were initiated by members of both sides of the political spectrum, even before Election Day. Arkansas was no exception to this rule. In 2020, multiple Arkansas lawsuits highlighted the weaknesses of the state’s voter infrastructure, particularly with regard to the absentee ballot process. Voting-by-mail was particularly important in the pandemic year when long lines became a public …
Redistricting Transparency & Litigation, Rebecca Green
Redistricting Transparency & Litigation, Rebecca Green
Faculty Publications
Legislative redistricting following the 2010 Census kicked up a deluge of litigation. It did not abate. In several states, redistricting litigation extended throughout the decade, costing taxpayers millions. Factors leading plaintiffs to challenge legislative lines are multifaceted; the reasons redistricting litigation flares (and persists) are complex. One underexamined question is the extent to which process fairness in redistricting impacted redistricting litigation after the 2010 Census. At least in theory, a transparent redistricting process should produce fairer maps less likely to be challenged in court. But fights over maps result from myriad sources--the raw quest for political power, the availability of …
Presidential Control Of Elections, Lisa Marshall Manheim
Presidential Control Of Elections, Lisa Marshall Manheim
Articles
An election that is “disputed” lacks two qualities after Election Day: a clear winner and a concession. These elections instead depend on legal processes — recounts, court proceedings, and more — for resolution. As a result, when a sitting President, running for reelection, becomes immersed in a disputed presidential election, he potentially enjoys an advantage over his opponent. He can attempt to exploit the powers of the presidency to push these legal proceedings in his favor. As a practical matter, this advantage can be formidable. A sitting president can resort to his extraordinary bully pulpit, for example, to influence public …
Federalizing The Voting Rights Act, Travis Crum
Federalizing The Voting Rights Act, Travis Crum
Scholarship@WashULaw
In Presidential Control of Elections, Professor Lisa Marshall Manheim masterfully canvasses how “a president can affect the rules of elections that purport to hold him accountable” and thereby “undermine the democratic will and delegitimize the executive branch.” Bringing together insights from administrative law and election law, she categorizes how presidents exercise control over elections: priority setting through executive agencies, encouraging gridlock in independent agencies, and idiosyncratic exercise of their narrow grants of unilateral authority.
Manheim’s principal concern is an executive influencing elections to entrench themselves and their allies in power. Her prognosis for the future is steely-eyed, and she recognizes …
Two-Party Structural Countermandering, Benjamin Plener Cover
Two-Party Structural Countermandering, Benjamin Plener Cover
Articles
The popular narrative surrounding gerrymandering frames it as a performative phenomenon—achieved through the intentional manipulations of malevolent partisan actors. Efforts to curb partisan gerrymandering —which I call countermandering—have been performative, in turn, focusing on constraining these bad actors through judicial review or mapmaker neutrality. Yet performative countermandering has had limited success. Judicial and institutional constraints are only sometimes available and are often cumbersome and costly. More important, their utility is inherently limited, because gerrymandering is not only performative. It is also structural—an inevitable product of the American electoral schema itself. This paper makes the case for structural countermandering. It explains …
Geographic Gerrymandering, Benjamin Plener Cover
Geographic Gerrymandering, Benjamin Plener Cover
Articles
The leading measures of gerrymandering reflect a party-centric theory of representation based on the statewide relationship between seats and votes. But electoral districting, a traditional practice that still predominates, reflects a geographic theory of representation focused on the district-based relationship between a representative and her constituents. We propose a new approach to gerrymandering that takes electoral districting on its own terms and defines fairness geographically without reference to the seats-votes relationship. Scholars, courts, and mapmakers recognize the representational interests advanced by geographic criteria, such as preservation of local political boundaries. We ask whether an electoral map fairly distributes these benefits. …
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In The Census, Ming Hsu Chen
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In The Census, Ming Hsu Chen
Publications
Who is a member of the political community? What barriers to inclusion do immigrants face as outsiders to this political community? This article describes several barriers facing immigrants that impede their political belonging. It critiques these barriers not on the basis of immigrants’ rights but based on their rights as current and future members of the political community. This is the second of two Essays. The first Essay focused on voting restrictions impacting Asian American and Latino voters. The second Essay focuses on challenges to including immigrants, Asian Americans, and Latinos in the 2020 Census. Together, the Essays critique the …
Undue Deference To States In The 2020 Election Litigation, Joshua A. Douglas
Undue Deference To States In The 2020 Election Litigation, Joshua A. Douglas
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on so much of our lives, including how to run our elections. Yet the federal courts have refused to respond appropriately to the dilemma that many voters faced when trying to participate in the 2020 election. Instead, the courts—particularly the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts—invoked a narrow test that unduly defers to state election administration and fails to protect adequately the fundamental right to vote.
"How The Sausage Gets Made": Voter Id And Deliberative Democracy, Joshua A. Douglas
"How The Sausage Gets Made": Voter Id And Deliberative Democracy, Joshua A. Douglas
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In 2020, Kentucky became the twentieth state to enact a law that requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls to vote. Yet the law is one of the most mild and reasonable photo ID laws to pass in recent memory. This article tells the inside story of how that law came to be. And it presents the broader story of how the process of crafting legislation, when employing a theory of deliberative democracy, can increase legitimacy and produce better results for the functioning of our elections. The Kentucky story therefore offers important lessons for election law policy …
Black Women's Suffrage, The Nineteenth Amendment, And The Duality Of A Movement, Danielle M. Conway
Black Women's Suffrage, The Nineteenth Amendment, And The Duality Of A Movement, Danielle M. Conway
Faculty Scholarly Works
America is at an unprecedented time with self-determination for Black women, and this phase of the movement is reverberating throughout this nation and around the world. There is no confusion for those who identify as Black women that this movement is perpetual, dating back to the enslavement of Black people in America by act and by law. One need only look to the intersecting crises of 2020 to discern the reality of Black women’s—and by extension the Black community and by further extension individuals and groups marginalized, subordinated, and oppressed by white patriarchy—perpetual struggle for civil and human rights.
To …
Dark Money Darker? Irs Shutters Collection Of Donor Data, Philip Hackney
Dark Money Darker? Irs Shutters Collection Of Donor Data, Philip Hackney
Articles
The IRS ended a long-time practice of requiring most nonprofits to disclose substantial donor names and addresses on the nonprofit annual tax return. It is largely seen as a battle over campaign finance rather than tax enforcement. Two of the nonprofits involved, social welfare organizations and business leagues, are referred to as “dark money” organizations because they allow individuals to influence elections while maintaining donor anonymity. Many in the campaign finance community are concerned that this change means wealthy donors can avoid campaign finance laws and have no reason to fear being discovered. In this Article, I focus on whether …
Models, Race, And The Law, Moon Duchin, Douglas M. Spencer
Models, Race, And The Law, Moon Duchin, Douglas M. Spencer
Publications
Capitalizing on recent advances in algorithmic sampling, The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights explores the implications of the long-standing conservative dream of certified race neutrality in redistricting. Computers seem promising because they are excellent at not taking race into account—but computers only do what you tell them to do, and the rest of the authors’ apparatus for measuring minority electoral opportunity failed every check of robustness and numerical stability that we applied. How many opportunity districts are there in the current Texas state House plan? Their methods can give any answer from thirty-four to fifty-one, depending on invisible settings. But …
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In Voting, Ming H. Chen, Hunter Knapp
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In Voting, Ming H. Chen, Hunter Knapp
Publications
Who is a member of the political community? What barriers to inclusion do immigrants face as outsiders to this political community? This Essay describes several barriers facing immigrants and naturalized citizens that impede their political belonging. It critiques these barriers on the basis of immigrants and foreign-born voters having rights of semi-citizenship. By placing naturalization backlogs, voting restrictions, and reapportionment battles in the historical context of voter suppression, it provides a descriptive and normative account of the political misrepresentation of immigrants.