News Roundup of West Virginia Redistricting Decision from SCOTUS

SCOTUSBlog: “Yesterday the Court also issued an unsigned ruling in Tennant v. Jefferson County Commission, a West Virginia congressional redistricting case in which the Court held that the three-judge district court was wrong to require that there be virtually no difference in population between the House districts drawn up after the 2010 Census.  Lyle provides extensive analysis of the decision at this blog; additional coverage comes from Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News, Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel of Reuters, Bill Mears of CNN, Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Ruthann Robson at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, and the Associated Press (via The Washington Post).”

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