Category Archives: redistricting
3 Judge Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss in Another NC Partisan Gerrymandering Case
They are going to be piling up as we expect the Supreme Court to take up the Wisconsin case next term.
Today’s latest opinion, in Common Cause v. Rucho, is unanimous and discusses the efficiency gap. which plays a… Continue reading
Bethune-Hill News Roundup
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Decides Bethune-Hill, the VA Racial Gerrymandering Case
The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Kennedy (joined by the Court’s liberals and Chief Justice Roberts) has affirmed in part and reversed in part the Virginia racial gerrymandering case, Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Board of Elections. Justice… Continue reading
“Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in PA congressional district maps”
Phys.org:
Pennsylvania’s congressional district maps are almost certainly the result of gerrymandering according to an analysis based on a new mathematical theorem on bias in Markov Chains developed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh mathematicians. Their findings are… Continue reading
Wisconsin Files #SCOTUS Notice of Appeal in Partisan Gerrymandering Case, Triggering Likely High Court Review Next Term
This is a big deal. (Background on why the Court will likely hear the case on the merits.)
Will Justice Kennedy agree to police partisan gerrymandering as his parting gift from SCOTUS?
“From Educational Adequacy to Representational Adequacy: A New Template for Legal Attacks on Partisan Gerrymanders”
Chris Elmendorf has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
For decades, legal attacks on partisan gerrymanders have foundered on a manageability dilemma: doctrinal standards the Supreme Court has regarded as judicially discoverable have been rejected as unmanageable,… Continue reading
What Does Judge Gorsuch Think About Partisan Gerrymandering? A Tiny Tea Leaf
For more than the last decade, since the Supreme Court decided Vieth v. Jubelirer, plaintiffs have been angling to get another case raising the question before the Supreme Court. In Vieth, Justice Kennedy sided with the dissenters in holding… Continue reading
At William and Mary Redistricting in 2020 Symposium
The next few days should be great at this event.
I’ll be presenting Race or Party, Party as Race, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization In Redistricting and Voting Cases.
Gerrymandering and partisan composition of Congress (cont.)
At Rick (Hasen)’s request, I wanted to add just a bit to Rick (Pildes)’s original post on the new paper by Jowei Chen and David Cottrell, proposing a means to assess the net partisan consequences of congressional redistricting.
Given the… Continue reading
“Elbridge Gerry and the Monstrous Gerrymander”
New blog post at the Library of Congress:
Gerrymandering is a current political topic today; as always, it is usually initiated by the incumbents to retain or increase their power. When gerrymandering is taught in U.S. history classes, it is… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court will examine partisan gerrymandering in 2017. That could change the voting map.”
Bernie Grofman at The Monkey Cage (and to be clear, the Supreme Court has not yet agreed to hear any case raising these issues):
If, in 2017, the court does not specify a manageable standard for identifying unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering,… Continue reading
“Legal challenges leave future NC elections in limbo”
“Race or Party, Party as Race, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization In Redistricting and Voting Cases”
I have posted this draft on SSRN, for the forthcoming symposium on Redistricting after 2020 at William and Mary. I think this piece brings together a lot of my thinking (and others’ thinking) on the “race or party” question… Continue reading