Travis Crum

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Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis. Writing and Teaching about Voting Rights and Constitutional Law.

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How does originalism work for constitutional amendments adopted during our lifetimes? A cert petition about the 26th Amendment, which prohibits age discrimination in voting and enfranchised Sotomayor and Roberts as teenagers, raises that question. electionlawblog.org?p=142392

I'm thrilled to announce that my next paper, The Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting, will be published in the Columbia Law Review! The paper reconciles vote dilution, racial gerrymandering, and Section 2 of the VRA by looking to the original meaning of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Hot off the presses!! The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment has been published in the Yale Law Journal! The Article is a 123-page exploration of the Fifteenth Amendment's drafting and ratification, shining a spotlight on the forgotten Reconstruction Amendment. www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...

I'm a bit late to this year's law review submission season, but my latest article, the Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting, is finally off my plate. Fingers crossed! I'll post it on @ssrn.bsky.social soon, but in the meantime, here's the abstract:

In my new Election Law Blog post, I argue that Justice Alito embraced a retrogression standard reminiscent of Section 5 in his Coalition for TJ dissent. For why that's strikingly out of character and what it could mean for proving discriminatory intent, check it out: electionlawblog.org?p=141598

Travis Crum: "Justice Alito Embraces a Retrogression Standard" #ELBelectionlawblog.org The following is a guest post from Travis Crum: Earlier this week, the Supreme Court denied cert in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, an important case about intentional discrimination ...

Check out my new Election Law Blog post about the Fifteenth Amendment's relevance to Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment and Trump v. Anderson: electionlawblog.org?p=141101

Travis Crum: "The Fifteenth Amendment’s Relevance to Trump v. Anderson" #ELBelectionlawblog.org The following is a guest post from Travis Crum: One of the many issues in Trump v. Anderson is whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment applies today or whether it’s “insurrection or rebe...

Yesterday, the 8th Circuit held that private plaintiffs lack an implied-cause-of-action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. But the 8th Circuit may not have had jurisdiction over the appeal. Check out my Election Law Blog post to find out why: electionlawblog.org?p=139782

Travis Crum: "The Eighth Circuit’s Other Jurisdictional Problem" #ELBelectionlawblog.org The following is a guest post from Travis Crum: In Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, a divided panel of the Eighth Circuit muddied the VRA’s jurisdictional w...

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