Michael Li 李之樸

Redistricting & voting counsel at @brennancenter at @NYUlaw. Opinions mine. Usual caveats about retweets. From TX, so lots of tweets about the Lone Star State.

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

CNN projects Scott Colom wins #mssen, giving Dems their 55th Senate seat in the biggest upset of the cycle

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

The North Carolina congressional map now the illustration on the Wikipedia page for "Dummymandering."

[Max @maxtmcc]

My whole life the story of the South has been about rising racial polarization; it got so high it basically became the case that if you were white you voted GOP and if you were Black you voted Dem.

2026 *shattered* this, driven by a MASSIVE Dem surge with young whites.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

At a sushi restaurant in Brooklyn, and the people a couple of tables over are talking about the Texas election results. (They do not seem to be from Texas.)

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

Judge Rudofsky was the district judge who wrote the opinion holding that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act can’t be enforced by individual voters through a private right of action.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

White House pulls nomination of Lee Rudofsky for the Eighth Circuit, a nomination that Rudofsky's home-state senators, Arkansas's Boozman and Cotton, opposed: https://t.co/uglwamhIPJ

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

AP has just 14 uncalled U.S. House races as of this afternoon. Really remarkable how close Rs came to a 14-0 wipeout in North Carolina.

https://t.co/1JNAUp71Nr

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

More here:

https://t.co/azOh2kL6W4

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

Between 2000 & 2010, only 28% of counties had more deaths than births. In the most recent census data, nearly 2/3 now do.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

The state’s request to have SCOTUS hear the Alabama congressional redistricting cases (challenge to the 2026 map) has been relisted for the Justices’ Friday conference.

https://t.co/OkXBWBd4Hw

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

Spotlight on MS should result in making it easier to vote. It’s long past time.

“One of only three states with no in-person early voting.

One of 13 states requiring excuse to vote by mail.

No online voter registration.

Polls open from 7 to 7 on Tuesday, which is a workday.”

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

The wide expectation had been that Mississippi would do a redistricting special session this month to target Black districts, but after last Tuesday, you have to think there is some reconsideration of that plan.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

@evan7257 An out Chief Justice, yes. An out Justice, no.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

No decision by SCOTUS in this week’s orders on whether to hear the Alabama appeals.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

BTW, the Alabama congressional redistricting cases challenging the post-Callais map return to SCOTUS on Friday 11/6 when the justices consider the cases at conference.

The questions raised by the state on appeal 👇

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

In retrospect, Ds may rue missing the chance to have their 2028 national convention in the South.

The R choice to have their convention in Houston is also going to be interesting after last Tuesday.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

The Texas midterms get a feature in protest signs in Paris. #txlege

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

A James Talerico cameo on tonight’s SNL cold open. #txlege

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

Mrs. T on the front pages of all of Texas’ big papers today. #txlege

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

👀

[Garrett Herrin @GarrettHerrin]

Jon Ossoff would still have won Georgia’s Senate race even without Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Gwinnett counties.

[Bernard L. Fraga @blfraga]

Updated estimates here, now with about 95% of Election Day voters included. Latino share of the vote increase now at 48%.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

A history making moment for Texas - made all more poignant by the fact that when Mrs. T first began voting she had to pay the poll tax to do so.

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

And Ms. T makes Big Three!

For the first time in history, Texas is poised to have women filling the top three jobs - Gov. @GinaHinojosaTX, Lt. Gov. @VikkiGoodwinTX and House Speaker @Senfronia4Texas (assuming she holds the votes when the lege returns)

https://t.co/hIgol0BySU