Callais just gutted the promise of equal representation. But we need to keep fighting for multiracial democracy
This is how the Voting Rights Act died: not in a fair fight, but in a case engineered to produce a predetermined result.
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To protect voting rights after Callais, we need to invest in red states
The deeper lesson of Callais is not just that we must fight back. It’s that the people who actually live in these states have been fighting all along and all alone.
The Supreme Court called it chaos then. What does it call it now?
The shadow docket has grown in scope and importance in a range of areas of the law. But none has been as important or as overlooked as the area of redistricting.
Democrats must gerrymander to save democracy
Redistricting is, in nearly every respect, a zero-sum game. When you remove a guardrail, the consequences are immediate and trigger others.
The Supreme Court just turbocharged the gerrymandering war. It was already to blame for unleashing it
Fair maps are not a technical issue. They are a safeguard for all our rights and a check on entrenched political interests.
In Virginia, Republicans attack the map and the right to vote
Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results.
I’ve been in this fight for 10 years. Last night, we won.
The citizens of Virginia voted for a new map that will net Democrats an additional 4 congressional seats.
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
The Republican Party is a party of vote suppressors and election deniers. This is no longer a flaw in some members of the GOP; it is the defining feature of the MAGA takeover.
Only North Carolina Voters Can Stop the GOP Gerrymander
There’s a long-term path to defeating the gerrymander — but only if voters act to put pro-democracy judges on the state’s highest court.
Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing
On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans enacted a newly gerrymandered map that targets Black voters to create an additional seat for a white Republican. The next day – yesterday – my law firm sued.
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