This is a huge victory for democracy. The county line was one of the most distortive policies in modern politics. I’m proud to have played a small role in ending it.

Looks like there’s little voting polarization by favorite baseball team. I now have a new favorite example for why racial vote dilution is a thing but many other potential kinds of dilution — like by baseball team — aren’t.

My reaction to the HLR leak is that they take article selection extraordinarily seriously. 400+ memos totaling 2000+ pages? And that’s just one stage of their process? Geesh. When I ran YLS’s international law journal, we just met and talked about submissions.

My idea is a student-faculty partnership in which students, say, cull the submissions from 3000 to 300 (e.g., the pieces that got HLR memos), and faculty then choose among those articles. Students could keep their Bluebooking-citechecking role.

For a paper showings this empirically, see here. Over hundreds of IRV elections, in the U.S. and abroad, the Condocet winner was elected about 99% of the time. scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

The decision to reargue Callais is confusing. The most plausible rationale for reargument is getting into the Section 2 merits of the preceding lawsuit. But this case simply isn't about Section 2. So it's a terrible vehicle for a blockbuster ruling about the VRA.

But I thought Republicans had to re-redistrict Texas to avoid racial gerrymandering. Surely that wasn’t a facade for a more potent partisan gerrymander?