Election Law Stories
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................ v
Foreword: Election Law Stories, or an Election Law Story? ............. 1
Joshua A. Douglas
Introduction: The Maturing of Election Law ...................................... 7
Eugene D. Mazo
Part I: The Right to Vote ............................................................... 19
Chapter 1: Reynolds Revisited ........................................................... 21
Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Chapter 2: Offering A New Vision for Equal Protection: The
Story of Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections ............... 63
Franita Tolson
Chapter 3: The Right to Vote in Local Elections: The Story of
Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 ............................ 87
Eugene D. Mazo
Part II: Redistricting and Gerrymandering ........................... 125
Chapter 4: Realizing the Right to Vote: The Story of
Thornburg v. Gingles ................................................................ 127
Daniel P. Tokaji
Chapter 5: Belling the Cat: The Story of Vieth v. Jubelirer ........... 179
Lisa Marshall Manheim
Chapter 6: LULAC v. Perry: The Frumious Gerry-Mander,
Rampant .................................................................................... 233
Justin Levitt
Part III: Campaign Finance ........................................................ 285
Chapter 7: The Nine Lives of Buckley v. Valeo ............................... 287
Richard L. Hasen
Chapter 8: Politics, Money, and Corruption: The Story of
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission ............................ 313
Bradley A. Smith
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CONTENTS
Chapter 9: The Citizens United Trilogy: The Myth, the True
Tale, and the Story Still to Come ............................................. 359
Heather K. Gerken & Erica J. Newland
Chapter 10: “More Speech” as a First Amendment Violation:
Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v.
Bennett and the Challenge to Public Funding ........................ 405
Richard Briffault
Part IV: Election Administration .............................................. 451
Chapter 11: The History of Voter ID Laws and the Story of
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board ............................ 453
Joshua A. Douglas
Chapter 12: The Shelby County Problem ........................................ 505
Ellen D. Katz
Chapter 13: Bush v. Gore: The Court Stops the Recount ............... 541
Edward B. Foley
Biographies of the Contributors to Election Law Stories ............... 577