Category Archives: redistricting
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Second Place Winner
This week, we’re announcing the winners of Common Cause’s inaugural Democracy Prize writing competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard.” Yesterday we announced the third place winner. Today we’d like to offer our congratulations to second place winners Jowei … Continue reading
Ed Blum Hints He’ll Be Done After Trying to Knock Out Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act, and One Person, One Vote
TPM:
Evenwel v. Abbott is the culmination of Blum’s decades long effort to take on racially-influenced redistricting, having failed twice before with “one person, one vote” cases that stopped at the Supreme Court’s doorstep. It is expected to be… Continue reading
“In Supreme Court redistricting case, it’s the ‘whole number of persons'”
Ackerman and Ayres LAT oped.
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Third Place Winner
As co-chairs of Common Cause’s inaugural Democracy Prize writing competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard”, it’s our privilege to announce the winners of the competition this week, as promised on Friday. First up is our third-place entry, which… Continue reading
“One Person, One Vote? The Supreme Court will consider whether equality of representation requires equal numbers of eligible voters, or equal numbers of people.”
Garrett Epps for The Atlantic.
Nate Persily Talks to Bloomberg Law’s June Grasso about Evenwel
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Winners Will Be Announced Next Week
Last year Common Cause launched the inaugural Democracy Prize Writing Competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard.” We had the honor of serving as co-chairs of the judging panel. Our goal was to encourage fresh thinking about a standard … Continue reading
Misleading 538 Headline on the Effect of Evenwel on Congressional Reapportionment
538 has a post, The Supreme Court Could Give The GOP Another 8 Seats In Congress, by the very smart David Wassernman and Harry Enten, but its headline is quite misleading.
As I’ve explained at Slate, at stake in… Continue reading
Derek Muller with the Conservative Case Against Evenwel
Must-read:
It might be that population-based redistricting in Texas, and for that matter in most states, is unwise for this reason. The argument that these practices are quite administrable and wholly consistent with decades of practice, while true, may… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Could Implode Heavily Latino Legislative Districts”
Jon Fleischman:
Clearly this case presents a conflict for conservatives, who would otherwise welcome the political ramifications of changes in districts, because such a ruling, if it came down, would represent a severe legal assault on the notion of… Continue reading
“Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama – Post-Decision SCOTUScast”
Stephen Davis on a Federalist Society podcast.
“The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.