At the Lectern: The Supreme Court today granted in part the Citizens Redistricting Commission motion, filed a month ago, to further extend the constitutional and statutory deadlines to release for public comment and to then certify and approve… Continue reading

Sept. 28 NYLS event.

Axios reports.

AP: When voters in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.Instead, cooperation has proved elusive.In… Continue reading

Rob Yablon has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As they carry out their decennial redistricting duties, those in power sometimes audaciously manipulate district lines to secure an electoral advantage. In other words, they gerrymander. Often, however,… Continue reading

NYT: Seven years ago, New Yorkers voted decisively to empower a new bipartisan commission to do what self-interested politicians could not: draw new congressional district lines that were not gerrymandered to favor a particular party.But as the panel prepares… Continue reading

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced the creation of a Redistricting Advisory Council as part of his commitment to a fair and transparent redistricting process that will involve the public. The Advisory Council has been tasked with: reviewing the processes in… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Michael McDonald about his important project: With the release of the Census Bureau’s redistricting data, redistricting is now upon us. A number of organizations have been working on data and technology in anticipation… Continue reading

Bernie Grofman, Lisa Handley and David Lublin have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We address recent skepticism by Chief Justice Roberts about the usefulness of social science tools of analysis in litigation about redistricting. Limiting our… Continue reading

AP: Democrats argue that the once-a-decade process of redrawing political maps shouldn’t be a partisan cage match. In the name of good government and balance, they’ve pushed for independent commissions to do the work of rebalancing population changes into congressional… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: The first volley in what is expected to be a fierce war over Texas redistricting kicked off Wednesday in the form of a federal lawsuit filed by two Democratic state senators who argue that state lawmakers cannot legally… Continue reading

Bernie Grofman and Jonathan Cervas: The aim of this short blog is to add a useful term, fracking, to the list of geographically defined redistricting criteria. Fracking is defined as a situation in which a county or city or… Continue reading