This looks absolutely fantastic! The history of the Voting Rights Act - and all the many ways in which the Roberts Court has been assaulting it.

@kevintmorris.bsky.social is doing brilliant, essential work - and this book will be mandatory reading the minute it is out.

Pre-order this now.

I also want to thank my advisor @rene5311.bsky.social and the rest of my committee for making this possible!

Successfully defended my dissertation yesterday! Keep a look out for one of the chapters on Shelby v. Holder in JREP. Now it’s time to lock in and find housing near Appalachian State University 🤙🏻

Why don't you continue the momentum from APSA and present your work at JAWS? We are still taking submissions!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's that time of the year to discuss our fabulous candidates on the academic job market from the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa! /1

If you're in the Boulder/Denver metro area feel free to join us Sept 19th for a mini conference on race, gender, and immigration politics at CU. We've finalized presenters, but attendee registration is still open.

Good morning, election data nerds! Here's a Monday morning present for you: we've finished updating our county-level presidential election results dataset to include 2024. The full dataset (covering 2000-2024) is now available on our Dataverse: buff.ly/eUGYc1h

It is a hard, but important time to be thinking and talking collectively about Medicaid. Join us next week (June 12th) for a historically grounded, future facing discussion.

So excited to have the opportunity to present my dissertation research for JAWs!

Interested in voting rights/ language protections (esp. now that English is our official language 🙄)? Don’t forget to tune in!!

I think so! We were told chi-weenie, but after some investigation I think he is a dachshund and beagle mix!

Looks like my pup! ❤️

It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment “There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.

It’s late. Read it in the morning. But my new one is up.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation A quick take on some of the questions raised by President Trump's ... dubious invocation of a 1798 statute as a basis for arresting, detaining, and removing non-citizens with ties to Tren de Aragua.

President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua raises a bunch of messy (but really important) legal questions.

Via "One First" (and cross-posted at @justsecurity.org), I take a shot at asking and answering five of them:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/132-five-q...

In our new #JREP #OpenAccess article, we show that racial attitudes are linked to perceptions of voter fraud and support for the #J6 Insurrection (w/ @cnicolejones.bsky.social @mattbarreto.bsky.social @michaelherndon.bsky.social) Summary: vrp.ucla.edu/vrp-article-... #polisci #politics #insurrection

A Survey of 'Know Your Rights' Resources for Immigrants and Their Families 'Know your rights' resources help communities prepare for escalating immigration enforcement activity. I reviewed dozens of these resources and identified 7 common themes.

Know Your Rights resources (via @austinkocher.com) austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-survey-o...

REP Starter Pack

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