With today’s SCOTUS decision to hear Evenwel, here’s an ELB post from Jan. 10, 2006:   JUDGE ALITO STATES WHAT HE MEANT BY ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE CRITICISM IN 1985 JOB APPLICATION In this Findlaw column, I questioned what… Continue reading

Mark Sherman reports for AP on the Evenwel case (though that same headline probably could have been written for a number of other cases).

Andrew Grossman and I talked about the Evenwel case today on Airtalk.  Audio should be posted there soon.

With the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Evenwel today on whether it is permissible to include non-voters (including non-citizens) in drawing legislative districts, it is worth remembering what the Supreme Court said about this in the 1966 case, Burns v. … Continue reading

Lyle Denniston on Evenwel.

In a surprise move, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a three judge court in Evenwel v. Abbott, a one-person, one vote case involving the counting of non-citizens in the creation of electoral districts. Ed Blum,… Continue reading

Marcia Coyle: In the Three-Judge Court Act, Congress required district court panels of three jurists to decide litigation involving redistricting, campaign finance and other key areas. Three Marylanders now are asking the U.S. Supreme Court the fundamental question of… Continue reading