“Free Webinar July 12: Supreme Court Redistricting Cases”
Lisa Sorenen blogs about a webinar. I’m one of the speakers.
Category Archives: redistricting
4th Cir. Finds One Person, One Vote Violation in Wake County, NC
The opinion in Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Wake Co. Board of Elections is here. The court applies the standard from Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission for deviations under 10%, finding it “more probable than not that the… Continue reading
Wice on 2020 Census Residence Criteria
Jeff Wice writes at New York Election News:
Of major importance is a change to the way prison population are reported. After the 2010 census, New York, Maryland and Delaware enacted laws to reassign prisoner populations to “homes of… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Redistricting Lawsuit Could Reverberate Nationally”
Coverage of NC Gerrymandering Case
On yesterday’s noting of probable jurisdiction in McCrory v. Harris:
Charlotte Observer
The Hill
Politico
Roll Call
U.S. News
Wang’s Partisan Gerrymandering Calculator
Check it out: Sam Wang has created this site (currently in beta) with online calculators for the statistical tests described in his recent article in Stanford Law Review.
“Drawing the Line: How redistricting turned America from blue to red.”
Elizabeth Kolbert reviews Ratf**ked in the New Yorker.
“Common Cause Announces Winners of National Contest to End Gerrymandering”
Release:
Three academics with fresh ideas to identify and analyze how politicians draw legislative boundaries for political advantage have been declared the winners of Common Cause’s second annual Gerrymander Standard Writing Competition.
1st Place: Wendy Tam Cho and … Continue reading
“NCSL/SLLC Supreme Court Redistricting Cases Webinar”
Announcement:
It is a banner year in the Supreme Court for redistricting cases! Aside from Evenwel v. Abbott, holding that states may redraw legislative districts based on total population, the Court decided three other redistricting cases that will be important… Continue reading
“Supreme Court takes case claiming racial gerrymandering in Virginia”
Josh Gerstein reports for Politico.
#SCOTUS Will Hear Another Racial Gerrymandering Case
The Supreme Court this morning noted probable jurisdiction in the Bethune-Hill case, raising racial gerrymandering claims in state legislative elections in Va. The SCOTUSBlog page is here.
Just a few weeks ago, the Court dismissed on standing grounds a… Continue reading
Federal Court Rejects Partisan Gerrymander Objection to NC Congressional Redistricting Plan
A few months ago, a three judge court held that North Carolina’s congressional redistricting included an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. This case is currently on appeal to the Supreme Court. To remedy the violation, the NC legislature came up with a… Continue reading
“Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and North Carolina’s Use of Racial Black Political Power”
Michael Curtis has posted this draft on SSRN (Wake Forest Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This Article focuses on new developments in the ongoing saga of North Carolina’s 2011 state legislative and congressional reapportionment and gerrymander. The earlier article… Continue reading
“The Revival of the Three-Fifths Clause in a Rhode Island Prison Gerrymandering Case”
Derek the Muller:
A federal district court handed down a memorandum and order for summary judgment in Davidson v. City of Cranston, a case concerning “prison gerrymandering” in Rhode Island. The court concluded that the city improperly drew districts… Continue reading