Category Archives: redistricting

New Complications in NC Partisan Gerrymandering Case

June 6, 2017, 10:06 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Fascinating Lyle Denniston post: Both sides in a new Supreme Court test case on partisan gerrymandering – drawing new election districts to favor one party – on Tuesday answered the Justices’ questions about whether the case should stay alive,… Continue reading

Revised Version of My Race or Party Paper Now Posted

June 6, 2017, 4:18 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have now posted a revised version of “Essay: Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases” (forthcoming William and Mary Law Review symposium… Continue reading

“Constitutional Connections: Race, partisan gerrymandering and the Constitution”

June 4, 2017, 3:12 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

John Greabe writes on Cooper v. Harris for the Concord Monitor.

“SCOTUS’s Last Chance to Rein in Partisan Gerrymandering?”

May 31, 2017, 8:00 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Kimberly Robinson for Bloomberg BNA: The U.S. Supreme Court could radically change how states draw their districts for federal and state elections as Republicans and Democrats are preparing to battle over the next redistricting cycle. More than 30 years ago,… Continue reading

“Supreme Court’s next step on gerrymandering could be its biggest yet”

May 30, 2017, 7:39 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ariane de Vogue for CNN.

“Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed”

May 30, 2017, 7:37 amredistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NY Times: In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a federal appeals court said had… Continue reading

Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Ohio Motor-Voter Case; Remands NC Redistricting Case

May 30, 2017, 7:20 amNVRA (motor voter), redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

(Apologies for the delay, as ELB was down this morning.) After being relisted only once, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Husted v. A.Philip Randolph Institute from the Sixth Circuit. The question presented is: “Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507… Continue reading

What are all these NC redistricting cases?

May 26, 2017, 2:24 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

There are a bunch of North Carolina redistricting cases stacked up at the moment. A few of these are in front of the Supreme Court, and could move as early as Tuesday. Since we just had a North Carolina redistricting… Continue reading

“The Shifting Ground of Redistricting Law”

May 24, 2017, 12:36 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Very important Chris Elmendorf post at Balkinization, with a more negative view of Cooper v. Harris: How then is a state to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which, as noted above, has long required states to… Continue reading

“Cooper v. Harris: Proxy Battles & Partisan War”

May 23, 2017, 4:48 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Mike Parsons on yesterday’s Supreme Court racial gerrymandering decision.

“The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool”

May 22, 2017, 6:49 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the Washington Post. It begins: Sometimes the most important stuff in Supreme Court opinions is hidden in the footnotes. In Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down two North Carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced… Continue reading

Another Explanation for Justice Thomas’s Joining of Racial Gerrymandering Majority Opinion

May 22, 2017, 6:44 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I’ve already opined on what might have motivated Justice Thomas (and Justice Kennedy) so side how they did today. An ELB reader passes along these additional thoughts about Justice Thomas and what comes next: I’ve always been struck by Justice… Continue reading

“Supreme Court Upholds Rejection Of North Carolina Congressional Districts”

May 22, 2017, 3:14 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.

We May Soon Get a Hint on What the Supreme Court Thinks of Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case

May 22, 2017, 3:05 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, comes this stay application in the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case (Gill v. Whitford). The state wants the Supreme Court to put on hold a requirement that Wisconsin state legislative districts by November 1. The Supreme… Continue reading