“Should it be legal to have a congressional district only one party can win?”
David Savage of the LAT reports on partisan gerrymandering cases working their way to #SCOTUS.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Wi Files Brief Opposing Supreme Court Review in John Doe Case
You can find the brief in opposition to cert. (which apparently contains no redacted material) at this link. There will likely be a reply filed soon, and then this will get considered by the Supreme Court in the next few… Continue reading
Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening
Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading
Where Do We Stand on the Voting Wars in NC, TX, WI and Elsewhere?
I try to bring it together at WaPo’s The Monkey Cage:
After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North… Continue reading
“Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act”
The final version of Justin Levitt’s must read piece on the relationship between the VRA’s districting requirements and racial gerrymandering claims is now out from the FSU Law Review and available at SSRN. It is just in time as the… Continue reading
Final Version of My “Reining in the Purcell Principle” Article Now Available
Just in time for the 7th Circuit to consider softening Wisconsin’s voter id law and the Supreme Court to consider North Carolina’s law, here’s the final version of my paper, Richard L. Hasen, Reining in the Purcell Principle, 43 FSU … Continue reading
George Will on Trump, #SCOTUS, Kelo and Citizens United
New column:
The court has said that campaign-speech regulations can be justified to combat corruption or the appearance thereof. Trump says he has made innumerable contributions to members of both parties because, “When you give, they do whatever the… Continue reading
No, Justice Breyer Won’t Help Elect Donald Trump with a “Courtesy” Fifth Vote for Stay in NC Case
Ian Millhiser makes the case:
On its surface, Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. has very little to do with voting rights. It’s a case about the right of transgender students to use a bathroom that aligns with their… Continue reading
“Common Cause suit challenges partisan gerrymandering in NC”
Charlotte Observer.
They’ll have to get in line. There’s already a partisan gerrymandering claim from NC pending in an appeal at the Supreme Court, and ongoing partisan gerrymandering litigation in Wisconsin and Maryland.
All in an effort to shape… Continue reading
“David Prosser calls John Doe appeal weak”
Wouldn’t have expected this while cert. petition pending:
Newly retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser thinks an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over his role in derailing the John Doe investigation into campaign financing is weak.… Continue reading
Justice Kennedy Denies Stay in False Judicial Elections Speech Case
Following up on this post, motion for stay denied (without requesting response or referring to full Court).
“Supreme Court, Inferior Oversight”
The latest from Fix the Court, which is doing crucial work.
Plaintiffs Challenging NC Redistricting Go to #SCOTUS Claiming Partisan Gerrymander
Here is the jurisdictional statement in Harris v. McCrory.
I believe this is the first case raising issues of partisan gerrymandering to make it to the Supreme Court since Justice Scalia’s passing. Will they touch it? I don’t know. One… Continue reading