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Voting Rights Act Deserves More Judicial Deference than Indiana ID February 22, 2013 My contribution to the ACSblog Shelby County v. Holder symposium.  This commentary gives five reasons why the case to uphold Section 5′s preclearance and coverage provisions is …

Sorry for taking a break, but I’m back.   Here’s a link to my new Georgetown Law Journal entitled “The Participation Interest.” The abstract is below. Lack of participation is a primary problem with money in politics. Relatively few people …

Eugene Volokh recently posted the following on the election law listserve:  “A correspondent of mine pointed to this decision, which “rul[es] that overseas voters and soldiers now have standing to challenge violations of their constitutional right to vote via the …

I recently completed a series on the Michael Eric Dyson Show about challenges to particularly vulnerable populations of voters. Low-Income Voters: About 3 million additional low-income voters would be registered each year if States fully complied with a federal law …

Yesterday I participated on a moderated panel at the U.S. Capitol on “How Will History Judge the Impact of Citizens United v. FEC,”  which was cablecast on C-Span.  Click here to watch (my opening statement is at 1:02). UVA Prof. …