ACLU Files Sharp Letter in District Court (with Copy to Supreme Court) Responding in Census Citizenship Case
Letter:
The link will bring you to the rest of the letter.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering”
Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract:
We live in hyperpartisan times. Democrats and Republicans have not been so bitterly divided along partisan lines since Reconstruction, nor so aggressively hostile… Continue reading
“Robin Vos won’t have to testify in Wisconsin gerrymandering case for now, and may not have to at all”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos won’t have to sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case in the short term — and might escape having to testify entirely. A panel of appeals judges blocked a lower court order Tuesday… Continue reading
DOJ’s John Gore Said in His Deposition That One of the Purposes of Collecting Citizenship Data on the Census Forms is To Let States Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Eligible Voters (Which Hurts Hispanics and Democratic Voters)
The other day I tweeted this:
This is a key point and shows that whether or not DOJ borrowed from Hoefeller, the motivation was to allow states to engage in redistricting based on voter eligible persons, which would dilute… Continue reading
Tweet of the Day (from Nate Persily)
Read the thread, starting here:
https://twitter.com/persily/status/1135973410117341184
“DOJ calls new census allegations a ‘baseless attack on the integrity’ of department and its employees”
DOJ Responds to Census Plaintiffs on Hofeller, Claiming There Were No False Statements in DOJ Testimony and No Evidence Hofeller Material Was Used in DOJ Position on Citizenship Question on Census
Here is the letter, painting a starkly different picture of both the facts and legal relevance of the Hofeller materials.
This will no doubt have to be hashed out by the district court, while the Supreme Court drafts its opinion… Continue reading
Registration Opens Today for UCI Law 9th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review (July 8)
Hope to see many of you there (and the event will be live webcast. Registration opens today. Details:
9th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review
Monday, July 8 at 10:30am to 12:00pm
Irvine Barclay Theatre & Cheng Hall 4242 Campus Drive,… Continue reading
“A Partisan Grab, in Six Steps Will the Supreme Court act as a Republican branch?”
David Leonhardt for NYT Opinion.
How Appealing Rounds Up Census Litigation Developments
Here.
I Talked About the Census Case and the New Revelations with Hansi Lo Wang and Dale Ho on KQED Forum
You can listen here.
“New Memo Reveals the Census Question Was Added to Boost White Voting Power; Why it won’t matter to the Supreme Court’s conservatives.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
If we had a fair Supreme Court not driven by partisanship in its most political cases, Thursday’s blockbuster revelation in the census case would lead the court to unanimously rule in … Continue reading
New Cert Petition Out of Disputed Connecticut Assembly Race Asks Supreme Court to Resolve an Apparent Circuit Split Over the Meaning of Bush v. Gore
The case is Feehan v. Marcone and the cert petition is here.
“McConnell confirms he would help Trump fill another Supreme Court vacancy in 2020”
WaPo:
When President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused to consider him, blocking the nominee until after the year’s presidential election.He said then that “the American people… Continue reading