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The Evenwel Gambit
Joey Fishkin:
So that leaves what I’d call the Evenwel Gambit: fess up, selectively, to Real Reason 2. Claim that you want to add the citizenship question to the Census in order to enable the CVAP-based drawing of district… Continue reading
Gaming Out the Census Citizenship Question Endgame: What Comes Next, and How Will Things End?
I thought I’d pull together some thoughts on the issue of whether the Trump Administration will try again to add a citizenship question to the census, after sharing some earlier thoughts across this blog, to NPR, and at Slate… Continue reading
Rebecca Green: A Spade is a Spade (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Rebecca Green, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
The Rucho
decision is hard to get your head around. Plaintiffs presented two clean cases with
clear “smoking guns”: partisan… Continue reading
Moon Duchin: How to Reason from the Universe of Maps (The Normative Logic of Map Sampling) (Rucho symposium)
The following is a guest post from Moon Duchin, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Justice Kagan’s dissent in Rucho states in its
opening paragraphs: “The majority’s
abdication comes just when courts across the country,… Continue reading
Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer: Rucho: Democracy and Banality (Rucho symposium)
The following is a guest post from Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
One would be hard-pressed to find
a more hackneyed Supreme Court opinion than Chief Justice Roberts’s majority… Continue reading
Since Trump Tweet, Justice Department Lawyers Trying to Come Up with New Pretext for Including Citizenship Question on Census; Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo Pushing Trump To Do This Despite Supreme Court Ruling
Washington Post:
Trump was furious and thought the Commerce Department and the Justice Department — which has been arguing the case — had given up the fight too easily. He complained about Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.,who he said… Continue reading
Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Michael Morley, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
The
Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v.
Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American
voters. Justice Kagan’s… Continue reading
Mike Parsons: Rucho’s Antidemocratic Instinct: “This is not law.” (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Mike Parsons, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
In
holding that partisan gerrymandering claims are not “resolvable according to legal
principles” and are “therefore beyond [federal] courts’ jurisdiction,”… Continue reading
Justin Levitt: The Soft Bigotry of Low Legislative Expectations (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Justin Levitt, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Last Thursday’s Rucho majority
opinion brought many indignities. The shadowboxing
with strawmen, in the form of proportionality claims no litigant… Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse Believes Roberts Changed His Position in Census Case After First Draft Favored the Government
Linda in the NYT:
But first, the census case. I’ve been obsessed with imagining whatever dark night of the soul preceded the chief justice’s last-minute decision to shift course and reject the administration’s position.I readily admit that I have… Continue reading
Rick Pildes: What Do Voters Think Independent Redistricting Commissions Should Do? (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Rick Pildes, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Now that the Supreme Court’s decision means that limits on partisan gerrymandering will have to come from venues such as… Continue reading
Keith Gaddie: After Rucho: Fifty Thickets (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Keith Gaddie, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Felix Frankfurter called redistricting a “political thicket” which the federal courts would do well to avoid. And, when the court did… Continue reading
Tam Cho: For Partisan Gerrymandering, an Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Wendy Tam Cho, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
We have
been focused for some time on the Supreme Court’s role in regulating partisan
gerrymandering. Now that we… Continue reading