Rick Pildes

I'm honored to be thanked by Sen. Manchin, along with @derektmuller @Nedfoley @jacklgoldsmith and Brad Smith, Michael McConnell, and Bob Bauer, for our work on the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. @CassSunstein

This piece reminds me of a nice story. The first time I taught from the manuscript that would become our casebook, The Law of Democracy, two women students at Michigan pointed out we had no cases that addressed issues of gender. I told them I wasn't aware of any cases but if…

I was intrigued with Cass Sunstein's substack essay, "The Morality of Legality." And so we decided to do a short video discussion of it. @CassSunstein : youtube.com/watch?v=SqlHwZ…

I used to use Pocket to save pieces from the web. What are people now using instead?

Thanks. One thing we discuss that gets less attention is ways to give the minority party in the House more tools so that it can perform more of the checking function in the polarized party era. David Fontana has more extensive writing about this.

Without a court order, New York cannot redistrict congressional lines mid-decade. The state constitution prohibits that from happening. @RedistrictNet @ShaneGoldmacher @NYElectionNews @Redistrict2021

This is a beautiful tribute to all three. None were my teachers but I knew Dan and Dick well, all the pearls Cass drops here are perfect

Are small donors the solution to democracy’s problems? brookings.edu/articles/are-s… . @BrookingsInst @BrookingsGov. We are strong skeptics based on research with @zack_albert123 for forthcoming book @UChicagoPress on small donors.

Question about CASA, the universal injunction case: will this force the Supreme Court to give more of an explanation for actions it takes on the emergency docket? If the govt is going to defer nationally to the Court's view of the merits, is the Court in granting or denying a…

For July 4th, a UK perspective on who counts as an American patriot (plaque at Gloucester Square London):

This is from Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social As @rickpildes.bsky.social and Bob Bauer discuss here, this issue challenges traditional campaign finance reform advocacy. There's a strong argument that leaving this in place while the rest of the law has been gutted weakens…

.@jacklgoldsmith: departmentalism is dead (in this administration, if it honors its representations to the Court)

I've said that the Supreme Court will likely open up broader questions about the VRA when it issues its order for supplemental briefing in the Louisiana redistricting case. I've been asked whether that might include questions about the constitutionality of Section 2, the…