Detroit News: A conservative group with ties to the powerful DeVos family of West Michigan is pumping at least $1.2 million into an effort to fight a ballot measure for an independent redistricting commission. The spending by the Michigan Freedom… Continue reading

Looking forward to watching this Release: “SOCAL CONNECTED, KCET’s Emmy® and Peabody® award-winning news documentary series for Southern Californians will premiere a new episode titled “Divide and Conquer” on Tues., Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. PT on KCET in  Southern… Continue reading

Federal court appoints UC Irvine Prof Bernie Grofman as special master to assist court in redrawing Virginia house of delegates map. Order here: https://t.co/UChOmzvJlf #fairmaps 1/ pic.twitter.com/WHUaIuGcS6 — Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) October 18, 2018  

Lyle Denniston: Reopening a deeply divisive controversy that has troubled the Supreme Court for 32 years, four state legislators from North Carolina have urged the Justices to bar all constitutional challenges to partisan gerrymandering. The decades-long search for a way… Continue reading

Detroit News: Republican mapmakers who drew Michigan’s current political districts were pressured to appease lawmakers and made changes to help gain legislative approval, according to documents and depositions in a federal lawsuit. The documents show mapmakers in 2011 gave top… Continue reading

Too funny:

Oped in the News & Record.

Judge Lynn Adelman has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming University of Memphis Law Review). Here is the abstract: In this paper, to be presented at an election law forum sponsored by the Memphis Law Review and published in a… Continue reading

I’m very much looking forward to participating in this Federal Bar Association lunchtime event in Riverside, California with Doug Johnson on October 23. Link with RSVP info.  

WaPo: “With a court-ordered deadline looming Oct. 30, Republican leaders of the House of Delegates on Tuesday backed a ‘politically neutral, race-blind remedial redistricting map’ that they said would satisfy the court while causing minimal disruption to existing legislative district… Continue reading

Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly filed a new partisan gerrymandering suit Friday challenging WI assembly map on First Amendment grounds. Here’s th complaint: https://t.co/yFOwdGAe2J #fairmaps #wipolitics pic.twitter.com/RbrRTXVC1A — Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) September 17, 2018