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In-Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's May 2025 Political Law Round-Up

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 6/2/2025

DOJ Declines to Defend Party Coordinated Expenditure Limits Before Supreme Court, Urges Court to Invalidate Limits - On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) responded to the petition for writ of certiorari...more

Trump Fires Democratic FTC Commissioners, Setting Up a Direct Challenge to Humphrey’s Executor

Venable LLP on 3/20/2025

On March 18, President Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The removals of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter are the latest in a series of executive actions that will...more

Episode 18 | Unpacking the Packing: A Perspective on the Efforts to Expand the Supreme Court

Frantz Ward LLP on 3/1/2022

Controversy regarding the claimed increased partisanship of the U.S. Supreme Court and efforts to change the Court's makeup by expanding its numbers continues to be in the headlines. So Shoveling Smoke thought it would be...more

Supreme Court Decides Chiafalo v. Washington

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/8/2020

On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Chiafalo v. Washington, No. 19-465, holding that states may penalize “faithless electors" who break their pledge to vote for their party’s presidential nominee. For every...more

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Political Gerrymandering Non-Justiciable

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/2/2019

Late last week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in two cases concerning the constitutionality of political gerrymandering: Rucho v. Common Cause, a case arising out of North Carolina, and Lamone v. Benisek, arising out of...more

Supreme Court Decides Rucho v. Common Cause

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/28/2019

On June 27, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, holding that claims of partisan gerrymandering present nonjusticiable political questions that cannot be resolved by the federal courts under...more

Supreme Court Avoids a Decision on Partisan Gerrymandering

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 6/25/2018

In advance of the midterm elections scheduled for November 6, 2018, many states are preparing for, or have already completed, their primary elections. Meanwhile, voters and state officials in Wisconsin and Maryland have...more

Supreme Court Leaves Big Partisan Gerrymandering Questions Undecided: Some Clues About What Happens Next

Sands Anderson PC on 6/22/2018

On Monday the Supreme Court avoided deciding, once again, when, if ever, political gerrymandering violates the Constitution. In Gill v. Whitford, the Supreme Court was presented with startling evidence that Wisconsin...more

Supreme Court Decides Gill v. Whitford

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/20/2018

On June 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Gill v. Whitford, No. 16-1161, holding that where voters assert that a state’s legislative districts have been improperly gerrymandered, those voters lack...more

Why High Court May Not Rein In Gerrymandering This Term - Law360

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/8/2018

During the current term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two redistricting cases involving claims of partisan gerrymandering. Now, commentators, observers and map-drawers across the country are waiting to see...more

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