Ruth Greenwood
@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social
Director, Harvard Election Law Clinic.
Thank you @slate.com and Naomi Schopenhauer for this article. A huge problem with the Larry Summers emails had nothing to do with who was receiving them (Epstein), but that he would engage in such a disgusting abuse of his position at all. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Everyone’s Missing the Biggest New Offense From the Epstein Emails
There is undoubtedly something wrong with a powerful man attempting to exchange professional access for sex.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Thank you @slate.com and Naomi Schopenhauer for this article. A huge problem with the Larry Summers emails had nothing to do with who was receiving them (Epstein), but that he would engage in such a disgusting abuse of his position at all. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Love this article on the work my students did to help us win our case in the New York Court of Appeals hls.harvard.edu/clinic-stori...
Election Law Clinic wins voting rights challenge in New York's highest court - Harvard Law School
Students from Harvard Law School's Election Law Clinic traveled to Albany in October to see the culmination of months of preparation as their professor argued a case with statewide implications before...
hls.harvard.edu
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Love this article on the work my students did to help us win our case in the New York Court of Appeals hls.harvard.edu/clinic-stori...
Incredibly proud to have won this case at the NY Court of Appeals on behalf of Black and Latino voters in the Town of Newburgh. The Town alleged the NY Voting RIghts Act is unconstitutional, but we (successfully) argued they lacked capacity to raise this argument. On to trial! tinyurl.com/et7rp8ak
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November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Incredibly proud to have won this case at the NY Court of Appeals on behalf of Black and Latino voters in the Town of Newburgh. The Town alleged the NY Voting RIghts Act is unconstitutional, but we (successfully) argued they lacked capacity to raise this argument. On to trial! tinyurl.com/et7rp8ak
You know how we can minimize ad hominem attacks like this over redistricting? Non-partisan redistricting commissions with partisan fairness requirements. Across the country.
NEW: 5th Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan nominee, has released an opinion on why he dissented from a three-judge court's ruling that blocks a Texas congressional map that may help Republicans in the 2026 midterms
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#1439 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott (W.D. Tex., 3:21-cv-00259) – CourtListener.com
DISSENT from 1437 Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Motion for Preliminary Injunction, signed and issued by Judge Jerry E. Smith. (kc) (Entered: 11/19/2025)
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November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
You know how we can minimize ad hominem attacks like this over redistricting? Non-partisan redistricting commissions with partisan fairness requirements. Across the country.
Too soon
Breaking: Supreme Court to rule 6-3 that Texas gerrymandering did not go far enough to destroy the hopes of minorities in Texas.
#Satire
#Satire
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Too soon
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See the tool everyone is talking about: electionlawnavigator.org
@statecourts.bsky.social #ElectionLawNavigator
@statecourts.bsky.social #ElectionLawNavigator
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
See the tool everyone is talking about: electionlawnavigator.org
@statecourts.bsky.social #ElectionLawNavigator
@statecourts.bsky.social #ElectionLawNavigator
My "how to stop authoritarianism" and "how to parent my toddler" reading lists have merged (though the outcome of f*&king up the latter is my toddler's bedtime gets later and later, not that an entire country suffers and backslides).
What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.
The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself
When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My "how to stop authoritarianism" and "how to parent my toddler" reading lists have merged (though the outcome of f*&king up the latter is my toddler's bedtime gets later and later, not that an entire country suffers and backslides).
I never wanted the partisan gerrymandering wars, but if they're going to happen, then the winner should be an unbiased congress. And then that congress should enact legislation to outlaw partisan gerrymandering. Voters deserve far more than this madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Why Democrats Could Win the Redistricting War
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I never wanted the partisan gerrymandering wars, but if they're going to happen, then the winner should be an unbiased congress. And then that congress should enact legislation to outlaw partisan gerrymandering. Voters deserve far more than this madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Yes to all this! Thanks @fishkin.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
California’s Prop 50 passed. Now, here’s how to end partisan redistricting once and for all
OPINION: We need a new federal statute of mutual disarmament — ideally before we reach the point where there are zero California Republicans and zero Texas Democrats, Joseph Fishkin writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yes to all this! Thanks @fishkin.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Right on cue, prospective election losers are whining and delegitimizing American elections. Pro tip -- don't take advice on EVs from me, and definitely do NOT take election advice from an EV salesman. US elections are as secure as ever, and we know who legit wins. Some quick facts...
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Right on cue, prospective election losers are whining and delegitimizing American elections. Pro tip -- don't take advice on EVs from me, and definitely do NOT take election advice from an EV salesman. US elections are as secure as ever, and we know who legit wins. Some quick facts...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Right on cue, prospective election losers are whining and delegitimizing American elections. Pro tip -- don't take advice on EVs from me, and definitely do NOT take election advice from an EV salesman. US elections are as secure as ever, and we know who legit wins. Some quick facts...
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Right on cue, prospective election losers are whining and delegitimizing American elections. Pro tip -- don't take advice on EVs from me, and definitely do NOT take election advice from an EV salesman. US elections are as secure as ever, and we know who legit wins. Some quick facts...
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“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Reading a Ted Kennedy quote about Robert Bork’s unsuitability for SCOTUS (from 1987), but it’s all a bit too close to home on this day of protest
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reading a Ted Kennedy quote about Robert Bork’s unsuitability for SCOTUS (from 1987), but it’s all a bit too close to home on this day of protest
I fear this is exactly what is going on.
THE WHOLE REASON we're arguing the case this year, after it was ALREADY argued last year, is that Roberts couldn't figure out how to get away from the court's own ruling in Milligan. Now, he's figured it out.
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I fear this is exactly what is going on.
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“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
As long SCOTUS is considering issues not properly before them in Callais, I'm all for giving representation to West Virginia Democrats and Illinois Republicans. Come on Court overule Rucho and let us bring partisan vote dilution claims while you're at it!
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As long SCOTUS is considering issues not properly before them in Callais, I'm all for giving representation to West Virginia Democrats and Illinois Republicans. Come on Court overule Rucho and let us bring partisan vote dilution claims while you're at it!
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Thaddeus Stevens would like a word
Louisiana guy is now trying to pivot to "The FEDERAL government" has no business telling Louisiana that black people get to have political power.
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thaddeus Stevens would like a word
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Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
Missed TV line opportunity by Sotomayor in Callais: "Last time you told us that you drew the map to protect incumbents, are you now walking that back?" -- could have been "were you lying then or are you lying now!"
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Missed TV line opportunity by Sotomayor in Callais: "Last time you told us that you drew the map to protect incumbents, are you now walking that back?" -- could have been "were you lying then or are you lying now!"
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Today Law Forward is continuing our challenge to Wisconsin's gerrymandered congressional maps. We're arguing this anti-competitive gerrymandering case deserves its day in court before a three-judge panel. Democracy demands fair maps.
www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/
www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today Law Forward is continuing our challenge to Wisconsin's gerrymandered congressional maps. We're arguing this anti-competitive gerrymandering case deserves its day in court before a three-judge panel. Democracy demands fair maps.
www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/
www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/
I’m with Chemerinsky on this one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I’m with Chemerinsky on this one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Reading a biography of Sam Rayburn and this stands out as (unfortunate) ancient history
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Reading a biography of Sam Rayburn and this stands out as (unfortunate) ancient history
tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social
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Alright, one evening of preparing slides, and I am in love with @caseviewerapp.bsky.social (Case Viewer). Easy to find "that ridiculous Kennedy quote," "that awesome Kagan quip" and also "that cool chart from the slip op," and quickly throw them into a PPT. Thanks @beidelson.bsky.social!!
September 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Alright, one evening of preparing slides, and I am in love with @caseviewerapp.bsky.social (Case Viewer). Easy to find "that ridiculous Kennedy quote," "that awesome Kagan quip" and also "that cool chart from the slip op," and quickly throw them into a PPT. Thanks @beidelson.bsky.social!!