Election Law Brown Bag
March 11 / 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Georgetown Project on State and Local
Government Policy and Law (SALPAL)
welcome you to an
Election Law Brown Bag
Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and Developments in the
Statehouses After the 2020 Elections: The Dragon Still Lives
Thursday, March 11th
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
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Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law |
Executive Director, Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law |
Now that the 2020 Elections are done, the next front in the struggle for free and fair elections in America will be waged in statehouses around the country as decennial redistricting occurs. How will the 2020 Census and subsequent court rulings impact redistricting? How about Rucho v. Common Cause, the 2019 Supreme Court case that left the question of political gerrymandering for states to resolve? And what about legislation that has been introduced in statehouses around the country that will make access to the ballot more difficult for hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of them people of color? We will discuss these topics and more with Professor Richard L. Hasen of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and a 2020 Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law. Professor Hasen is the author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust and the Threat to American Democracy. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on election law and a regular commentator on CNN.