On Wisconsin!

A bar chart showing court-ordered and non-court-ordered redraws of congressional maps in non-Census cycles since 1972.

By popular demand, here it is broken out by court-ordered and non-court-ordered redraws.

This was a great conversation with the super-smart @rickhasen.bsky.social, @miriamseifter.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social

Here is a great paper on this point.

Congratulations, Rick!

Yes, but it is the perfect time for Second Breakfast.

This may be a great “ordinary course of judicial review“ scenario. As I understand it, the statute has no exceptions, but courts have said that election officials can exercise some equitable discretion. Here, election officials had the ballots, but they weren’t at the counting center in time.

A small thing that gives me joy, then:

Hmmm….

This is not “their own deadline.” This is the War Powers Act.

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This was such a great conversation!

Great and well deserved praise from Solum: “Deeply interesting and sophisticated. Highly recommended. Download it while it’s hot!”

Turner on Artificial Legal Agents Christian Turner (University of Georgia School of Law) has posted Artificial Legal Agents and the Alien Stance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We find ourselves ensnared in an ever nastier and strident debate over AI and its role in law, society, and private life. Derided as mindless math or a stochastic parrot, AI is often shrugged off as just a bad tool, perhaps even the latest tech bro obsession after crypto and NFTs.

Turner on Artificial Legal Agents

Christian Turner (University of Georgia School of Law) has posted Artificial Legal Agents and the Alien Stance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We find ourselves ensnared in an ever nastier and strident debate over AI and its role in law, society, and private life.…

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Any news coverage of these attacks that does not include the word “Congress” in either its headline or lede is failing to do journalism.

I do this all the time. Because writing is hard, but editing is fun.

This promises to be a great read!

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From the blurbs: “We the Voters is a superb introduction to the complexities of the contemporary American system of representative government … I don’t know of any book that in so few pages cover so many important topics so well.”

The book is written for a general interest audience. It explains how our elections work, and why. It also talks about how we’ve changed them over the years, and could do so again.

Very excited to get my author’s copy of “We the Voters: The Constitutional
Choices that Shape America’s Elections.” This was a labor of love, and it is thrilling to see it materialize in the real world.

Doesn’t that then turn every election night mistake into PC for seizing ballots and voting machines? That sounds like a recipe for chaos.

What seems to be doing the real work is the assertion that *if done intentionally* these things could be crimes. But there is no evidence presented that they *were* done intentionally, much less by any specific person.

So, Georgia person here. On a quick read, it seems like these all involve issues that have been exhaustively examined and explained, usually as errors or mistakes that were caught as the process worked forward.

So you enjoyed “What We Can Know”?

Unlikely?

I believe the woman in this photo is holding a memorial flag, given to the family of service members when they die.

Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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It starts in the states, and it requires two things: proportional representation for legislative bodies, and fusion voting in single-winner races. Eventually rolling back state-run party primaries, too. But PR is the only immediate “have a multi-party system” switch to flip and states can do it.