Category Archives: redistricting

“Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP”

June 25, 2017, 3:43 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Extensive AP analysis using the efficiency gap: The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.… Continue reading

“How Democrats Gerrymandered Their Way to Victory in Maryland”

June 25, 2017, 3:26 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Dave Daley in The Atlantic: New court depositions and previously unseen emails uncover just how determined Maryland Democrats were to take a seat from the Republicans and knock 10-term veteran Roscoe Bartlett—an idiosyncratic conservative who after losing his seat retired… Continue reading

“Has the Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?”

June 23, 2017, 11:22 ampolitical parties, political polarization, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

Eric (“Efficiency Gap”) McGhee and Boris Shor have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Party polarization is perhaps the most significant political trend of the past several decades of American politics. Many observers have pinned hopes on… Continue reading

“Do we really want the Supreme Court to decide how partisan is too partisan?”

June 22, 2017, 2:20 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Chuck Lane WaPo column.

“The Supreme Court’s Chance to End the Gerrymander”

June 22, 2017, 8:06 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Bloomberg View editorial.

“A new Supreme Court case could rejigger electoral lines for the 2020 election”

June 21, 2017, 9:10 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Steve Mazie for The Economist.

“Some States Beat Supreme Court to Punch on Eliminating Gerrymanders”

June 20, 2017, 7:55 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: California is the largest of a handful of states that are trying to minimize the partisanship in the almost invariably political act of drawing district lines. California has handed that task to the independent and politically balanced California Citizens… Continue reading

“Court may rule on partisan gerrymandering – but maybe not”

June 20, 2017, 1:05 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lyle Denniston: Although the court did not explain its willingness to schedule a hearing at the same time that it voted to block the lower court ruling in the meantime, its actions on Monday were not favorable to the challengers… Continue reading

“How 2 academics got the Supreme Court to reexamine gerrymandering”

June 20, 2017, 12:53 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Vox on McGhee/Stephanopoulos’s efficiency gap.

“Supreme Court’s Partisan Gerrymandering Case Could Have Texas Implications”

June 20, 2017, 11:35 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here’s a radio interview I did with Texas Standard.(corrected link)

Talking Partisan Gerrymandering with Josh Douglas on Bloomberg Law Radio

June 20, 2017, 7:34 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Listen with hosts June Grasso and Greg Stohr.

WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case News/Analysis Roundup

June 19, 2017, 7:39 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

In addition to my piece in The Atlantic (Justice Kennedy’s Beauty Pageant) on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Gill v. Whitford, here’s more coverage/analysis: Adam Liptak-NYT Bob Barnes-WaPo David Savage-LAT AP Greg Stohr-Bloomberg… Continue reading

“Justice Kennedy’s Beauty Pageant”

June 19, 2017, 9:00 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for The Atlantic on today’s decision to hear the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering claim. It begins: The partisan gerrymandering beauty pageant is returning to the Supreme Court next fall for a limited engagement for an audience… Continue reading

UPDATE ON STAY: Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear WI Gerrymandering Case, Gill v. Whitford, Next Term Analysis

June 19, 2017, 6:37 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

[UPDATE: About an hour after the Court issued its order agreeing to hear this case, it issued a second order, on a 5-4 vote, granting a stay of the lower court order in this case. The four liberal Justices dissented.… Continue reading