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With #Election2024 just getting started, Law School Lounge is here with some insights to break down the importance of elections and election law in today’s drastically different political landscape.
This week, co-authors of CAP’s “Election Law: Cases and Materials,” University of Wisconsin Law School Dean, Dan Tokaji and Harvard Law School professor, Nicholas Stephanopoulos are in the Lounge to discuss how election law directly impacts everyday voters, including why we have seen the polarization of politics and how modern platforms like social media and the 24-hour news cycle may play a role.
“I am [always] leery of attempts to get in the minds of the framers and to envision what they would say about today, because the world is so far beyond what they could have imagined. … [But] the concern about faction and the ability of people to inflame passions against a group that is different in one way or another, those concerns are more alive today than they have been at any point in our history, in part because of the rise and proliferation of social media.” Tokaji states.
Join this week’s panel as they discuss pluralism, the history of elections, the right to vote, the importance of election administration—and everyone’s favorite: the electoral college. “So there's a real tension, because a powerful principle of equality is what underpins and gives meaning to the doctrine of ‘one person, one vote’—but then various parts of our federal system are in clear tension with this egalitarian principle.” Stephanopoulos points out, “I'm sure the Warren Court of the sixties disliked the malapportionment of the Senate, and disliked the skews of the electoral college, but maybe rightly didn't feel that this was something a court could challenge...”
Plus, check out Tokaji and Stephanopoulos’s invaluable casebook on #ElectionLaw, (now in its seventh edition!) where they delve into recent cases from the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act, t
