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Category Archives: redistricting
Fair Districting Advocates in Ohio Take Steps Toward Holding Ohio Redistricting Commission in Contempt for Failure to Produce Fair Maps
Motion.
Update: The Ohio Supreme Court has called for a response as to why the members of the Commission should not be held in contempt.
“Republican activists sue in federal court in bid to institute legislative maps rejected by Ohio Supreme Court as GOP gerrymanders”
Cleveland.com:
A group of Republican activists are suing the Ohio Redistricting Commission, trying to get a panel of federal judges to bypass the Ohio Supreme Court and impose a map proposal the state court previously rejected as an… Continue reading
Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinion Issued in North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case
When the NC Supreme Court recently rejected the state’s congressional and state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander under the state constitution, the court promised opinions to follow.
You can now find 217 pages of opinions at this link… Continue reading
“No legal battles for California’s new election maps. But what lessons can be learned?”
Cal Matters:
As the clock struck midnight on Feb. 10, 14 people scattered around California collectively exhaled in relief.The 14 are members of the state’s independent citizens redistricting commission who drew 120 new districts for the Legislature, 52 for… Continue reading
Must-Read Adam Serwer: “The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination”
Adam Serwer for the Atlantic:
I have a hard time believing that anyone sincerely thinks that drawing districts that limit the political influence of Black voters in a state where Black people comprise more than a quarter of the… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Has Crossed the Rubicon”
Linda Greenhouse NYT column:
You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels… Continue reading
Watch Video of Laura Coates Interview Derrick Johnson and Me at CNN on Supreme Court’s Stay in Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case
“Ohio Supreme Court again rejects legislative maps, sends redistricting commission back to drawing board”
Columbus Dispatch:
The Ohio Supreme Court once again rejected legislative maps that Republicans drew to disproportionately favor their candidates, sending mapmakers back to the drawing board and Ohio’s primary into massive uncertainty.For the second time, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor… Continue reading
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 5-4 Vote Stays District Court Order Requiring Alabama to Draw Second Black Majority District, and the Signs for the Voting Rights Act are Ominous
The Supreme Court issued a stay in the Alabama congressional Voting Rights Act case I wrote about last week and set the case (actually two related cases) for argument. This is bad news in the short run and likely worse… Continue reading
“Courts give Democrats unexpected boost on redistricting”
Reid Wilson for The Hill.
Could North Carolina Go to the Supreme Court, Arguing that the North Carolina Supreme Court in Requiring Redrawing of Congressional Districts Usurped North Carolina General Assembly’s Power?
From my tweet thread:
Maybe this is crazy, but I could see Republicans appealing to SCOTUS, arguing that the state court ruling usurped the power of the state legislature to set the rules for congressional elections in Art. 1… Continue reading
Breaking: North Carolina Supreme Court, on 4-3 Party Line Vote, Strikes Down Congressional and State Legislative District Plans in Violation of the State Constitution
This result was anticipated given the court’s earlier rulings along these lines and the partisan split on the court. The court promises a more extensive opinion to follow.
Of particular interest is this statement to guide the state legislature in… Continue reading
“G.O.P. Lawsuit Casts N.Y. Congressional Maps as Brazen Gerrymandering”
NYT:
A Republican-led group of voters filed a lawsuit late Thursday challenging New York’s freshly drawn congressional maps as unconstitutional, a day after Democratic lawmakers in Albany approved district lines that would heavily favor their party in its battle to… Continue reading