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Litigating the Line Drawers: Why Courts Should Apply Anderson-Burdick to Redistricting Commissions
Andrew C. Maxfield
BA 2018, University of Wisconsin–Madison; JD Candidate 2021, The University of Chicago Law School.

I’d like to thank Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Claire Rogerson, Brenna Ledvora, Becky Gonzalez-Rivas, Javier Kordi, Meghan Holloway, Daly Brower, and the entire editing team of The University of Chicago Law Review for incredible suggestions and advice on this piece. I’d also like to thank my high school English teacher Mr. Hale, who I was taught by that the passive voice should sparingly be used in my writing.

In the battle against partisan gerrymandering, redistricting commissions are now on the front lines.

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Direct Democracy Denied: The Right to Initiative During a Pandemic
Richard L. Hasen
Richard L. Hasen is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law.

He thanks Joshua Spivak for useful comments and suggestions.

Putting aside the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, the case overextending the date for receipt of absentee ballots in the April 2020 Wisconsin primary, many (although not all) courts have done a fairly good job protecting voting rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Election Litigation in the Time of the Pandemic
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Nicholas Stephanopoulos is a professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in election law.

In a time when normal life has ground to a halt, it may be reassuring that one American tradition—suing over electoral rules—is still going strong.

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