Ellen D. Katz (born 1968 or 1969) is an American legal scholar at the University of Michigan Law School.
"[6] Richard L. Hasen described this as "remarkable" because of Katz's past defenses of the constitutionality of the VRA's section 5.
[7] Katz was a critic of the Supreme Court decision in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No.
1 v. Holder in 2009, stating that its narrow statutory, rather than constitutional, ruling was "an improbable one"[8] that "allows just everybody involved in the case to declare victory.
"[9] Katz is a critic of the Supreme Court's "congruence and proportionality" test for the congressional power of enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, arguing in her 2003 article Reinforcing Representation that the framers of these Reconstruction amendments intended Congress to have broader power.