Michael Strawbridge, a political science professor and Weidenbaum Center research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, said Black women in Congress lend a greater focus to maternal and women’s health. “They recognize that sometimes issues related to race on the single axis don’t always account for the distinctive experiences of Black women who deal with both race and gender,” Strawbridge said.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow and Treiman Professor of Law Travis Crum spoke with NBC News about recent Supreme Court decisions involving election disputes. Crum said the Court’s actions could signal that delays in resolving election-related cases will not be rewarded.
That is a fast-paced briefing schedule, said **Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum**, a Washington University law professor who studies election and constitutional law. Even so, the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay will remain in effect even if the 8th Circuit does something before the overseas ballot deadline, he said. The Supreme Court’s stay is structured to remain in place until the high court acts on it again.
“The case could keep going after the 2026 elections,” Crum said. “It is possible the plaintiffs want to get a precedent on the books that once a primary happens you cannot change the districts before a general election.”
“Here in Missouri, we’ve witnessed a series of unprecedented actions, one after another,” said Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who specializes in election law. Do voters have a right for congressional district boundaries to stay the same from the primary to the general election? “That is a tough and complicated legal question, and there is no definitive ruling from the Supreme Court that one could point to for an answer,” Crum said.
Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote on Election Law Blog late Tuesday that though “Clark heard the Supreme Court’s message, he decided to plow ahead anyways.” That decision, he suggested, could be vulnerable on appeal. “I predict the Eighth Circuit will get the message,” Crum wrote, “and if it doesn’t, Justice Kavanaugh will repeat it.”
Jake Rosenfeld, Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow, argues that the public sector is the forgotten flank of the labor movement—and its largest opportunity for growth.
A $22 million pledge from Robert and Barbara Frick will support civic projects on campus and in St. Louis. Andrew Reeves, professor of political science and director of the Weidenbaum Center, will lead theinitiative’s next phase.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Krister Knapp has recently been selected as a Higher Education Ambassador for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading U.S. think tank dedicated to promoting understanding of international affairs.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, says that with election deadlines looming, the justices staying mum for more than a fortnight does not bode well for its plea.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Andrea Katz, a law professor at Washington University, weighs in on the debate over presidential power: Many legal scholars regard these examples as slender reeds on which to build an entire theory of Presidential power. Katz said, “To me, if we’re being originalist, ‘he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ means a duty to follow Congress’s orders, not a power to interpret the laws as the President decides.””
Assistant Professor of Sociology Margot Moinester co-authored a piece titled, "County sanctuary policies and birthweight among immigrant birthing people across multilevel immigration policy climates in the United States, 2012–2020: a repeat cross-sectional study." Prof. Moinester's research dives deeper into understanding county government's increase of immigrant policy making and the effects on birth weight to foreign-born people.
Weidenbaum Center speaker Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, reflects on what public health can learn from the COVID-19 response.