Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Justices to Hear Civil Rights Challenge in Ballot Prosecution”
USLW:
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of a former Democratic county commissioner from New York State who was acquitted of forging absentee ballots during a 2009 primary election.
Edward G. McDonough says the special prosecutor… Continue reading
“Will 2019 bring an end to partisan gerrymandering?”
Tony Pugh for The Newsroom.
“The Supreme Court Could Make Gerrymandering Worse”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic. It begins:
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to take up partisan gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland brought to mind a saying attributed to Judy Garland: Behind every cloud… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear Partisan Gerrymandering Cases from North Carolina and Maryland in March
Here is the Court order.
On what this means, see my tweet thread yesterday.
And see
The Next Threat to Redistricting Reform, Harvard Law Review Blog, Oct. 22, 2018
How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting … Continue reading
“Panels to End Gerrymandering Could Reach SCOTUS Again”
Some Thoughts on What the Supreme Court Will Do with the Partisan Gerrymandering Cases Coming Before It
Tweet thread from me, starts here:
There's an excellent chance that tomorrow the Supreme Court will announce it will take up (again) the question whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Don't take an agreement to hear case as a sign the… Continue reading
On February 19 Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Argument in Dispute over Testimony of Wilbur Ross and John Gore in Census Case
Remember “American/Western Tradition Partnership” Involved in Montana Elections in Case that Went to SCOTUS? Looks Like the National Right to Work Committee Was Secretly Behind It, Violating Montana Campaign Finance Laws
Montana Free Press:
Thousands of newly uncovered documents and recently filed court records bolster already mounting evidence tying the anti-union National Right to Work Committee to the political activities of conservative nonprofit groups accused of improperly coordinating Republican legislative… Continue reading
Interesting Petition at Supreme Court Raises Question Whether Campaign Finance Report Must List Ultimate Recipient of Campaign Money (in This Case, an Iowa State Senator Secretly Paid to Switch Endorsement to Ron Paul)
Cert. petition in Kesari v. U.S., awaiting a response from the SG’s office.
This question of disclosing the ultimate recipient of campaign money could have relevance to the Trump hush money payments issue and other issues as well.
“Partisan Gerrymandering, the First Amendment, and the Political Outsider”
Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Columbia Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The most recent call for judicial intervention into state partisan gerrymandering practices ran aground on the shoals of standing doctrine in Gill v. Whitford.… Continue reading
“Va. House GOP asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop new electoral map”
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Republican leaders in the Virginia House of Delegates have formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block a lower court’s efforts to redraw the House map for the 2019 elections.
In a court filing… Continue reading
Supreme Court Might Not Hear North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case Until Next Term, Meaning Possible Decision in June 2020, and Potentially Leaving NC Districts in Place for 2020 Elections and Perhaps Rendering Case Moot
So predicts key Court watcher John Elwood:
My instinct is Court won't act before 1/4 conference. I suspect they'll reschedule until late January, so argument would come next fall. I doubt John Roberts wants to revisit an issue that flummoxed… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Austin, Texas Low Campaign Contributions Case, Takes No Action on North Carolina Gerrymandering Petition
With no noted dissent, the Supreme Court has turned down a cert. petition in the Zimmerman campaign finance case from Austin Texas. I flagged this case (along with a Montana case that the Court will consider taking up in January)… Continue reading