I have written this post for the State and Local Government Law Blog. A taste: But the same issue may resurface, with a more conservative Supreme Court majority, as to the power of state courts to apply state constitutions in… Continue reading

Russell Berman for The Atlantic: To rid the country of partisan gerrymandering, Democrats for years joined with election reformers to take the responsibility for redistricting away from politicians and hand it to independent, nonpartisan commissions. The effort did not… Continue reading

Announcement via email: The Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Electoral Innovation Lab have announced the publication of A Judge’s Guide to Redistricting. This Guide is designed to help state court judges handle inevitable litigation during this redistricting cycle, by providing… Continue reading

Oregon Live: Four Republican former elected officials asked a court Monday to invalidate what they say is an “obvious, extreme, partisan gerrymander” of Oregon’s congressional district map.The quartet filed their suit exactly two weeks after Oregon’s House and… Continue reading

Colby Itkowitz WaPo column.

The Virginia Mercury reports.

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