Ruth Greenwood
@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social
Director, Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School.
Well look at that, DEI is destroying neither America nor capitalism. Nice to have robust research on this!
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d agoMy op-ed is out in USA Today www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Quite proud of the work I did over summer with Colin Cole and @equitabledemocracy.bsky.social on a podcast. Trailer is up! We see what lessons we can learn about electoral systems from Australia and try to apply to the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH9p...
The Future of Our Former Democracy Season 3 Trailer
YouTube video by Future of Our Former Democracy
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Nick and I got a little too enthusiastic with pre-ordering this awesome new book from our colleagues Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan. Excited to dive in!
In which Nick and I accuse the Supreme Court of murdering the Voting Rights Act…
Nicholas Stephanopoulos@profnickstephan.bsky.social · 3w agoNew paper by @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social and me: "The Death and Rebirth of Vote Dilution," forthcoming in the Supreme Court Review. We show how the Court tried to kill the concept of racial vote dilution in Callais -- and why this idea will never die. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Siri, play Karma by Taylor Swift. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Republicans might still lose half the seats they gerrymandered to flip
With some gerrymandered seats looking much more competitive than they hoped, Republicans are wondering if mid-decade redistricting can actually save their majority.
politico.com
I've spent my career fighting gerrymandering through litigation, advocacy, and public education. I even lost huge in the Supreme Court. After Callais, I'm convinced the tools are nearly gone. The problem is structural. My case for proportional representation, in @GlobeOpinion: protdem.org/45XQYuL
Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.
protdem.org
@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social is 1 of 500+ scholars urging Congress to adopt proportional representation. After a career fighting gerrymandering, her conclusion is clear: it’s time for systemic change. We’re proud to back her & fellow scholars in their push for change. Her latest for @bostonglobe.com
Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.
protdem.org
LOVE this new research from Asya Magazinnik and her co authors - I love when political scientists analyze empirical questions I want the answer to (but have no idea how to assess myself): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Assessing District Elections as a Remedy in State Voting Rights Acts
As federal voting rights protections recede, state-level voting rights acts (VRAs) have become the principal legal tool for safeguarding minority representation
papers.ssrn.com
Here's something I don't say often...well done Missouri on your pro-democracy reform! boltsmag.org/gop-run-miss...
GOP-Run Missouri Becomes Latest State to Roll Back Felony Disenfranchisement - Bolts
A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy.
boltsmag.org
I felt this comment as a bit of a gut punch from Jim Blacksher. In McClure 11CA oral argument (racial gerrymandering claim), in response to a request about whether Section 2 VRA requires SMDs in Jefferson County, AL, "I don't think section 2 requires anything, anywhere, after Callais."
Count me in! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Who's with me?
Civil rights leaders announce ‘March on Washington’ to defend voting rights
Led by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and joined by Martin Luther King III, civil rights leaders announced plans for a Washington march to defend voting rights.
nbcnews.com
The Voting Rights Act transformed local governments in the South, especially county commissions that control a lot of public budgeting. Public spending on Black areas grew The end of the Voting Rights Act in Callais might reverse this significantly www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
This is 100% correct and helps explain why I feel so frustrated with this Supreme Court term. I particularly appreciate the explanation of how Rucho (a case I litigated) has been completely twisted. As if it weren't bad enough already. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Yes Justice Jackson! Anticaste, antisubordination reconstruction amendments!
If only Barrett had included this in Callais (and flipped sides)- and left the VRA to Congress, as the Constitution intended. (from Watson v RNC). #StillSaltyAboutCallais.
Love seeing some public education around ranked choice voting on a brief visit to DC!
Depressing but true - it's both partisan hackery and racial discrimination. What a combo.
@wendyweiser.bsky.social · 4mo agoMost commentators puzzled by the unprincipled Roberts Court ruling in the AL redistricting case conclude that the only possible explanation is rank partisanship. There is another possibility. Maybe the majority is condoning and promoting race discrimination. The evidence supports either explanation.
"More and more, this Court shows itself to be little more than a partisan tool engaged in results-oriented jurisprudence, despite protestations to the contrary." @rickhasen.bsky.social nailed it. I weep for democracy after last night's shadow docket ruling electionlawblog.org?p=156541
Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with A...
You can find the 21 pages of order and dissents at this link. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to change its congressional district lines at the last minute to impose a ma...
electionlawblog.org
here's what i wrote
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4mo ago- @jamellebouie.net’s column not long before his reelection on how a second Trump era would likely mean the end of the American republic as we knew it (he didn’t mean 🇺🇸 literally wouldn’t exist; the U.S. has gone thru multiple republics already) has rung in my brain for the past year and a half
These judges are nurturing my soul. Justice is still possible in America! Democracy is limping, but surviving...
Michael Li (李之樸)@mcpli.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt's going to be hilarious (in the soul-crushing way) to see how fast Alabama goes to #SCOTUS for a stay of this ruling under Purcell, after obtaining relief from the Court from a similar injunction <checks notes> 15 days ago on the ground that it *wasn't* too close to the election.
if trump can't be audited ever, can't he now release all his tax returns? i realize it's a sideshow to the corruption circus, but still.
Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 4mo agoMust-Read NYT’s Peter Baker on Trump’s Unprecedented Scale of Corruption in Office (Gift Link) electionlawblog.org?p=156293
PlanScore predicting an overall US House bias in favor of Republicans (more efficient conversion of votes into seats - not necessarily more total seats) after the VA decision yesterday planscore.org#!predict0-us.... Woof.
