Category Archives: redistricting

“Judge’s ruling likely to give Democrats a congressional seat in Utah”

November 11, 2025, 7:17 amredistrictingRick Hasen

WaPo: A Utah judge late Monday rejected a congressional map that state Republican lawmakers had passed last month and ordered the adoption of a new map before next year’s midterm elections that is likely to give Democrats a U.S. House… Continue reading

“Utah’s new congressional map could get judicial approval by next week”

November 10, 2025, 7:19 amredistrictingRick Hasen

KSL reports.

“Why Democrats Could Win the Redistricting War”

November 7, 2025, 9:41 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Nate Cohn for NYT’s The Tilt: Republicans have had an advantage in this year’s redistricting wars because they control the redistricting process in states with more Democratic-held congressional seats. But this advantage is starting to look shaky — shaky enough… Continue reading

“Two Republican Incumbents Will Face Off as Red Turf Shrinks in California”

November 6, 2025, 7:47 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: A day after California voters shrunk the number of safe Republican House seats through a Democratic gerrymander, two endangered incumbents said they would square off against each other in a high-stakes bid for political survival next year. Representative Ken… Continue reading

“Republicans Swiftly File Lawsuit in Bid to Block California’s New House Maps”

November 5, 2025, 4:15 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: The lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses California of violating the Constitution “when it drew new congressional district lines based on race, specifically to favor Hispanic voters, without cause or evidence to justify it.” The lawsuit points to statements made… Continue reading

“Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History”

November 5, 2025, 1:29 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: But election lawyers and experts say that what is happening now is a crisis with few parallels in American history, especially given the potential weakening of the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court is expected to rule on… Continue reading

“California Strikes Back in the Redistricting War”

November 5, 2025, 1:23 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Jon Allsop for The New Yorker.

The Complaint Filed By Republicans Against the Maps Created by California’s Prop 50 Raising Racial Gerrymandering and Intentional Discrimination Claims Faces an Uphill Battle, Especially Given 2026 Timing

November 5, 2025, 11:02 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the complaint here. The main argument in the case is that plaintiffs engaged in a racial gerrymander by making race the predominant factor in drawing district lines without s compelling reason to to so. The primary… Continue reading

Joey Fishkin: “California’s Prop 50 passed. Now, here’s how to end partisan redistricting once and for all “

November 5, 2025, 7:35 ampolitical parties, political polarization, redistrictingRick Hasen

Joey Fishkin with an important piece in the SF Chronicle: The nationalization of politics also provides an opening to solve this problem. Congress has the power to do what it did in 1842: Enact a statute to bring both parties… Continue reading

Proposition 50: “California voters pass anti-Trump, pro-Democrat ballot measure”

November 4, 2025, 8:17 pmdirect democracy, redistrictingRick Hasen

LA Times: California Democrats’ effort to block President Trump’s agenda by increasing their party’s numbers in Congress was overwhelmingly approved by voters on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the victory moments after the polls closed Tuesday night. The statewide… Continue reading

“Moore keeps redistricting push alive in Maryland amid national map fights”

November 4, 2025, 11:11 amredistrictingRick Hasen

The Baltimore Banner reports.

I Spoke with the Radio News Hour in Australia About Prop 50 and the Redistricting Wars

November 4, 2025, 7:17 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Listen.

“Indiana Republican Tries Different Approach in Debate on Voting Maps: Listening”

November 3, 2025, 7:36 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: For two hours on Saturday, Greg Goode, a Republican member of the Indiana Senate, sat on a tall wooden chair, listening as constituents told him they oppose a plan to redraw the state’s political map to send more Republicans… Continue reading

ProPublica Profile of NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby Draws Veiled Threat from Justice’s Daughter to Drop the Story or Deal with Trump Administration

October 31, 2025, 1:01 pmchicanery, judicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

ProPublica: In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office. The previous year, the court — then… Continue reading