Election Law

“I worry that people are getting too invested in this decision from Texas,” said UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Emily Rong Zhang. “It’s just an outcome along the way. And it doesn’t seem obvious to me that just because there’s a decision from a three-judge panel here, there’s any expectation that the Texas map is going to get struck down.”

David Carrillo, executive director at Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center and Assistant Professor Emily Rong Zhang comment on California Republican’s constitutional challenge to the state’s newly approved congressional maps.

Emily Rong Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, said redistricting has long been a “wild west” of the US democratic system. “It’s brute force politics where the fights are some of the dirtiest.”

Contrary to claims by the Trump administration, noncitizen voting is “extremely rare,” according to UC Berkeley Law School’s Emily Zhang. “That’s the kind of fraud that they’re saying is happening,” Zhang said. “Now that they are in power, there is a pressure to kind of prove that claim, to demonstrate that this is actually a problem.”

Assistant Professor Emily Rong Zhang joins AirTalk to look at how voter ID laws work.

Joshua Spivak, a senior research fellow at Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center weighs in on what voter turnout may look like in November.

“The legal issues being raised by Republicans about a possible Harris nomination are just noise to generate confusion,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “They have no legal merit.”

Assistant Professor of Law Emily Rong Zhang weighs in on possible legal challenges to Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race.

“What’s so crazy is when we teach election law, a case like this would never come up because we almost never litigate claims over whether or not to have an election,” said Emily Rong Zhang, an assistant professor at Berkeley Law, explaining election disputes are usually over more specific legal debates.

“Rather than making a clear choice between the charter or the state rules, the county clerk used both,” write Joshua Spivak and David A. Carrillo of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law.