Category Archives: redistricting

Citizenship and the Census: Behind the Bluster

July 13, 2019, 12:12 pmcensus litigation, redistrictingJustin Levitt

Hansi Lo Wang points to a July 3 census filing under the Paperwork Reduction Act (the weeds matter, people) in which the Department of Commerce, “having carefully considered the matter, has determined that there is not sufficient time to develop… Continue reading

Citizenship and the Census: pivot to the complete count

July 13, 2019, 12:12 pmcensus litigation, redistrictingJustin Levitt

With the legal fight over the content of the 2020 enumeration questionnaire finally settled, commentators and advocates are turning to the fight over getting the count right. Here’s one example from Josh Geltzer and Mary McCord in the WaPo, and… Continue reading

Citizenship and the Census: pivot to redistricting

July 13, 2019, 12:11 pmcensus litigation, redistricting, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

And here’s the other turn Rick’s been forecasting: a HuffPost piece discussing the potential to use data culled for the President’s Executive Order in the redistricting process. And a WaPo dive on the potential consequences.

Citizenship and the Census: representation is not the same as voting

July 13, 2019, 12:09 pmcensus litigation, redistricting, The Voting WarsJustin Levitt

As Michael Li explains, on All Things Considered.

Hofeller’s files in North Carolina

July 13, 2019, 12:09 pmchicanery, political parties, redistrictingJustin Levitt

The files from Tom Hofeller that Rick keeps mentioning in the context of the census case were given to advocates in North Carolina primarily for use in a redistricting case in state court (i.e., not affected by the SCOTUS ruling… Continue reading

“Annexed Boise Neighborhood Left Out of Voting Rolls For Almost Five Years”

July 13, 2019, 12:03 pmredistricting, votingJustin Levitt

Fixed now, but a helpful reminder that cities are organic, not static … and that it helps to let election offices know as they grow or shrink.

New Yorker on the Hofeller Files and More: “A Father, A Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census”

July 12, 2019, 3:34 pmcensus litigation, chicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

Fascinating read.

If Trump’s Executive Order Ends Up Creating Better Citizenship Data, Could It Be Used by States to Draw CONGRESSIONAL Districts with Equal Numbers of Voter Eligible Persons (and Not Total Population)? Would It Allow for Use in State and Local Districts?

July 12, 2019, 8:29 amredistrictingRick Hasen

In earlier posts, and in a Slate piece, I explained that both the original reason for trying to include the citizenship question on the census and Trump’s executive order issued yesterday was to allow states to try to… Continue reading

Derek Muller on Rucho and Partisan Gerrymandering

July 7, 2019, 5:17 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here, at the Public Discourse.

“It’s Not Just the White House in 2020. The Power to Draw Maps Is Also at Stake.”

July 5, 2019, 7:01 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT reports.

Rebecca Green: A Spade is a Spade (Rucho Symposium)

July 5, 2019, 7:00 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Rebecca Green, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: The Rucho decision is hard to get your head around. Plaintiffs presented two clean cases with clear “smoking guns”: partisan… Continue reading

Moon Duchin: How to Reason from the Universe of Maps (The Normative Logic of Map Sampling) (Rucho symposium)

July 5, 2019, 6:56 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Moon Duchin, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Justice Kagan’s dissent in Rucho states in its opening paragraphs: “The majority’s abdication comes just when courts across the country,… Continue reading

Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer: Rucho: Democracy and Banality (Rucho symposium)

July 5, 2019, 6:00 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: One would be hard-pressed to find a more hackneyed Supreme Court opinion than Chief Justice Roberts’s majority… Continue reading

Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters (Rucho Symposium)

July 4, 2019, 1:00 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Michael Morley, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v. Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American voters. Justice Kagan’s… Continue reading