“Constitutional Connections: Race, partisan gerrymandering and the Constitution”
John Greabe writes on Cooper v. Harris for the Concord Monitor.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Matt Ford on Cert. Grant in Ohio NVRA Case
“SCOTUS’s Last Chance to Rein in Partisan Gerrymandering?”
Kimberly Robinson for Bloomberg BNA:
The U.S. Supreme Court could radically change how states draw their districts for federal and state elections as Republicans and Democrats are preparing to battle over the next redistricting cycle.
More than 30 years ago,… Continue reading
“PLF asks Supreme Court to invalidate Minnesota dress code for voters”
Pacific Legal Foundation:
On Election Day, millions of Americans trek to polling places in all corners of this Nation. On the way to casting their vote, many proudly wear shirts, buttons, and badges of organizations that share their views. Union… Continue reading
Coverage of Ohio Voter Purge Cert Grant
“Supreme Court’s next step on gerrymandering could be its biggest yet”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
“Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed”
NY Times:
In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a federal appeals court said had… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Ohio Motor-Voter Case; Remands NC Redistricting Case
(Apologies for the delay, as ELB was down this morning.)
After being relisted only once, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Husted v. A.Philip Randolph Institute from the Sixth Circuit. The question presented is: “Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507… Continue reading
What are all these NC redistricting cases?
There are a bunch of North Carolina redistricting cases stacked up at the moment. A few of these are in front of the Supreme Court, and could move as early as Tuesday. Since we just had a North Carolina redistricting… Continue reading
“The Shifting Ground of Redistricting Law”
Very important Chris Elmendorf post at Balkinization, with a more negative view of Cooper v. Harris:
How then is a state to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which, as noted above, has long required states to… Continue reading
Anita Earls: “Bringing sanity to racial-gerrymandering jurisprudence”
Important Anita Earls in the SCOTUSBlog symposium on Cooper v. Harris:
Although not breaking new ground, the court’s post-2010 census round of racial gerrymandering cases make clear that while not every district drawn as a majority-black or majority-Latino district is… Continue reading
“Did the 2016 Election Cause John Roberts To Change His Views on Race?”
“Is Anthony Kennedy Ready to Put an End to Partisan Gerrymandering? The Supreme Court’s swing voter will decide the future of American elections.”
“Cooper v. Harris: Proxy Battles & Partisan War”
Mike Parsons on yesterday’s Supreme Court racial gerrymandering decision.