#BREAKING : The Nevada Supreme Court has affirmed the lower court's ruling on the Nevada Redistricting Ballot Initiative.

The initiative petition does not provide a means to generate revenue and the NV SoS is hereby enjoined from taking further action on initiative.

Yesterday, the Georgia Governor signed a bill that makes it even easier for people to attempt to kick their neighbors off the voting rolls through voter challenges. Voters now face increased threats to their right to vote. 1/8 apnews.com/article/georgi…

'A statewide review ... found that in the 2022 general election, only 231 people voted from the state’s jails. Some 6,000 people are held in jails across Colorado every day ...'

Second error: the district court's conclusion that lawmakers had to draw a compact district that complied with Gingles (a SCOTUS precedent). But that's the standard to *demonstrate* a VRA violation, not to remedy one

This brief from VRA plaintiffs asking SCOTUS to stay the lower-court ruling blocking LA's new map is very strong.

Plaintiffs say district court erred in two major ways. Short thread. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…

Wild: this Republican draft bill (linked in tweet below) *explicitly* prohibits people from personally choosing to wear a face mask for their own physical health or safety.

Immunocompromised? Going through chemo? Have COVID or the flu? Too bad - wear a mask, break the law.

Louisiana Republicans hold the 2/3 supermajorities needed to put constitutional revisions on the ballot thanks to gerrymanders that were overturned in court earlier this year for discriminating against Black voters apnews.com/article/voting…

'Election investigators said they were unable to confirm that the double-scanned ballots were actually counted twice in the recount, which was the official result of the election.'

(Fulton County is Georgia's largest & contains most of Atlanta)

NEW: In Louisiana's congressional redistricting fight, a group of Black voters represented by Legal Defense Fund and other civil rights groups asks SCOTUS to put a hold on a three-judge court ruling that blocks the state’s new congressional map while they appeal
documentcloud.org/documents/2465…

Zellnor Myrie has played a leading role in New York passing dozens of laws since 2019 to reform elections & expand voting access.

He was one of several progressive/mainstream Dems who won primaries in 2018 against incumbent Dems who'd kept the GOP in charge of New York's Senate

Forcing Willis out would probably determine the outcome of the case, because any Republican replacement would presumably corruptly stifle it to death, so it’s a fit subject for interlocutory appeal *if you assume the pervasive corruption of Georgia Republicans* but not otherwise.

Senate President Cameron Henry says he thinks it’s “impossible” to comply with the judge’s order. He says there’s no bill the maps could be amended into. Henry said a special session is also not likely. It does not sound like the legislature will attempt to comply #lalege #lagov

.Sam Rosenfeld and I wrote a big book about American political parties and it's out today. We offer a wide-angle account of how the parties got here. You should buy it and read it: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law that makes it somewhat easier for activists to challenge voters ajc.com/politics/gov-k…

John Barrow sounds a lot like Janet Protasiewicz when he emphasizes abortion rights in his bid for the GA Supreme Court. But a judicial conduct panel is trying to shut him down—so he's fighting back (where else) in the courts dailykos.com/stories/2024/5…

A federal court recently blocked Louisiana Republicans' legislative gerrymanders for discriminating against Black voters; Republicans are appealing.

Louisiana's legislature isn't up for election until 2027, so ordering special elections could end the GOP's supermajorities sooner

A Republican state lawmaker who recently compared Arizona repealing its abortion ban to the Holocaust has been ...

... barred from using the legislature's broadcast equipment after using it to appear on a far-right talk show with a host who praises Hitler azmirror.com/briefs/anthony…

Bolts wants YOUR questions: Elections law expert Josh Douglas wrote a new book on how SCOTUS keeps undermining voting rights, & how it's all coming to a head.

And he agreed to answer your questions.

If you want to know anything on that... ask away!
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