Character designs by Steve Purcell for The Curse of Monkey Island (canceled), dir. David Carson, Lucasfilm
September 26, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Character designs by Steve Purcell for The Curse of Monkey Island (canceled), dir. David Carson, Lucasfilm
Cartoon by Donnie Purcell @dptoon.bsky.social
March 31, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Cartoon by Donnie Purcell @dptoon.bsky.social
SKELETON CREW art by Steve Purcell
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
SKELETON CREW art by Steve Purcell
NEW: In a brief filed with SCOTUS, civil rights groups contend that under the court’s own history of applying “the Purcell principle,” it is too late into the election season to suspend it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Civil rights groups say Purcell principle prevents Louisiana from suspending elections when votes have already been cast
Black voters are pressing SCOTUS to apply the Purcell principle, which says voting rules and maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election.
www.democracydocket.com
May 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
NEW: In a brief filed with SCOTUS, civil rights groups contend that under the court’s own history of applying “the Purcell principle,” it is too late into the election season to suspend it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
May 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist
Purcell doesn't apply to Republicans
Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor
The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
May 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Purcell doesn't apply to Republicans
Donnie Purcell
September 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Donnie Purcell
The Purcell principle was always a legal fiction applied selectively. But we are now beyond mere inconsistency. The Court has used the Purcell principle to erode any trust that there is any principle at all.
My latest: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/purc...
My latest: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/purc...
Purcell is not a legal principle. It's a double standard
At the heart of these cases is the Purcell principle — the idea that courts should avoid changing voting or election rules too close to an election.
www.democracydocket.com
May 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The Purcell principle was always a legal fiction applied selectively. But we are now beyond mere inconsistency. The Court has used the Purcell principle to erode any trust that there is any principle at all.
My latest: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/purc...
My latest: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/purc...
its honestly impressive how blatantly they have ignored purcell
June 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
its honestly impressive how blatantly they have ignored purcell
The Purcell principle is more like a double standard than a legal standard. You’ve heard it mentioned, this is what the case is about & how it’s applied: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Shame and the Supreme Court
The Hypocrisy of the Purcell Principle
open.substack.com
May 21, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The Purcell principle is more like a double standard than a legal standard. You’ve heard it mentioned, this is what the case is about & how it’s applied: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
lindsey tire gas, purcell, oklahoma, 1979
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
lindsey tire gas, purcell, oklahoma, 1979
July 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!
BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.
June 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!
Here's Justice Kavanaugh saying Purcell applies to SCOTUS. Oh well.
www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...
www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...
June 3, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Here's Justice Kavanaugh saying Purcell applies to SCOTUS. Oh well.
www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...
www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...
This is Professor Derecka Purcell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists.
Columbia allowed this.
Columbia allowed this.
I am honestly speechless. Every university administrator at Columbia is accountable for this.
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is Professor Derecka Purcell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists.
Columbia allowed this.
Columbia allowed this.
January 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Purcell for me, not for thee.
September 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Purcell for me, not for thee.
merchants national bank (designed by purcell & elmslie), entrance detail 1, third & lafayette, winona, minnesota, 1988
February 22, 2026 at 5:36 AM
merchants national bank (designed by purcell & elmslie), entrance detail 1, third & lafayette, winona, minnesota, 1988
SCOTUS decided Purcell, which requires election law challenges to be resolved with enough time for implementation and now they are slow-walking cases that would be timely under Purcell so those cases have no effect either. Wonderful!
The Supreme Court’s over five months of inaction on a South Carolina redistricting case has forced a lower court to order the state’s 2024 elections be conducted with a map that includes a district it found to be racially gerrymandered.
Supreme Court Drags Feet So Long That South Carolina Will Hold 2024 Elections Under Gerrymandered Map
The Supreme Court’s over five months of inaction on a South Carolina...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 28, 2024 at 6:53 PM
SCOTUS decided Purcell, which requires election law challenges to be resolved with enough time for implementation and now they are slow-walking cases that would be timely under Purcell so those cases have no effect either. Wonderful!
first national bank (1909), purcell elmsie architects, davenport street, rhinelander, wisconsin, 2003
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
first national bank (1909), purcell elmsie architects, davenport street, rhinelander, wisconsin, 2003
Artist: Robin Purcell
September 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Artist: Robin Purcell
"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."
231. The Death of Purcell's "Principle"
There is no coherent defense of the "Purcell principle" that can be rationalized with the Supreme Court's recent behavior in the AL and LA redistricting cases.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 8, 2026 at 11:28 AM
"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."
Purcell for thee but not for me
In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps.
This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
Sotomayor: "Alabama’s congressional primary election is next week, and vacating the District Court’s injunction will immediately replace the current map with Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan until the District Court acts, even though voting has already begun."
May 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Purcell for thee but not for me
March 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM