Category Archives: Supreme Court
Great Nina Totenberg Curtain Raiser on Partisan Gerrymandering Arguments Today at SCOTUS
“Plaintiffs in Wisconsin redistricting case get send-off”
“Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Gerrymandering Case”
Nina Totenberg for NPR on “cracking” and “packing.”
“Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court’s big gerrymandering case”
Barry Burden for The Monkey Cage.
“How partisan is too partisan? Wrong question.”
“From gerrymandering to voter purging – the critical issues facing the supreme court”
“How a Wisconsin Case Before Justices Could Reshape Redistricting”
Michael Wines reports for the NYT.
“History frowns on partisan gerrymandering”
Cliff Sloan and Michael Waldman have this WaPo oped.
“Gerrymandering the Constitution: More than statehouse politics at risk”
Carolyn Shapiro for The Hill with an important point I have not seen made elsewhere:
Those of us who live outside Wisconsin (or Virginia, North Carolina, or Maryland) should not assume these issues do not affect us. We all have… Continue reading
“Can the Supreme Court Fix American Politics?”
NYT editorial on Gil v Whitford.
“Courting Kennedy”
“To Limit Gerrymandering, Supreme Court Needs Just to Reaffirm Equal Population Requirement”
“Litigating the Line Between Past and Present; The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.”
Sara Mayeux for Bunk History:
How past is the past? That quandary, among the definitional puzzles of the human condition, is also the crux of the voting rights battles currently rending statehouses and federal courts around the country. Election law… Continue reading