SCOTUSblog on camera: Edward Blum (Part one)

A passion for advocacy and the founding of the Project on Fair Representation; the lessons learned from an unsuccessful bid for the 18th Congressional District in Houston;discovering the courts to fight gerrymandered voting districts; anddevelopingBush v. Vera his first case anda Supreme Court win.

In this five-part interview, Edward BlumVisiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Founder and President of the Project on Fair Representationdiscusses hisbackground, running for Congress,and moving from public finance to political advocacy to Supreme Court litigation; the meeting of race, ethnicity and religion; the desire tomake big law and how to read Supreme Court signals; and success building cases from the ground upfromBush v. Vera,NAMUDNOv. Holder,andShelby County v. HoldertoFisher v. University of Texas at Austinand beyondwithpeople of good will.