All posts tagged "Elie Mystal"

Democrats are about to lose a key piece of their electoral power and won't be able to win it back with gerrymandering, a new analysis warned.

"The loss of Black representation in the South cannot be offset with a few more liberal white representatives from Wisconsin," Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent, wrote in a Friday piece. "The inability of Black people in Memphis to elect a fighter like Justin Pearson is not mitigated by spitting out another corporate Democrat from Hoboken."

Mystal examined the electoral landscape in the wake of the Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision that gutted protections for Black voters' voting power and has sparked a redistricting war, especially in the South. ...

A former Trump attorney and a legal expert rumbled on CNN about why the 45th president's legal cases are in a tailspin.

The heated verbal clash on CNN's "NewsNight" saw sparks, and even forced CNN's Abby Phillip to referee at points.

In one corner was Tim Parlatore. And on the other The Nation's writer and legal expert Elie Mystal. ...