Category Archives: redistricting

“The Supreme Court’s Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering Will Drag It Down Further Into the Mud”

June 27, 2019, 3:30 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the New York Times. It begins: The Supreme Court decision on Thursday in Rucho v. Common Cause purports to take federal courts out of the business of policingpartisan gerrymanders and leave the issue for… Continue reading

“Chief Justice Roberts’s ‘proportional representation’ error”

June 27, 2019, 1:14 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Sam Wang blogs.

No Census or redistricting cases from SCOTUS today

June 20, 2019, 7:45 amcensus litigation, redistricting, Supreme CourtJustin Levitt

Rick is otherwise engaged at the moment, so I thought I’d send word: four opinions from SCOTUS this morning, but not the Census or redistricting cases. More opinions coming at 10am ET tomorrow.

“Will The Supreme Court Punt On Partisan Gerrymandering Again?”

June 18, 2019, 11:06 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Amy Howe chats with the 538 crew.

“The Supreme Court’s Next Three Weeks Could Shake Up the 2020 Election”

June 10, 2019, 6:49 amcensus litigation, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Greg Stohr for Bloomberg. The U.S. Supreme Court enters the homestretch of its term with looming decisions that could affect the 2020 election and thrust the court even deeper into the nation’s political wars.Between now and the end of… Continue reading

Breaking: Plaintiffs in North Carolina Redistricting Case, Using Hofeller Files, Allege NC Republicans Lied To Federal Court in Covington Case About Timing of and Use of Race in Drawing District Maps

June 6, 2019, 11:56 amchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

More major allegations coming out of the Hofeller hard drives. See this pdf, beginning at Exhibit C, page 7 (page 113 of the pdf). Some snippets from the plaintiff’s letter:

“Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering”

June 5, 2019, 6:53 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Michael Kang has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract: We live in hyperpartisan times. Democrats and Republicans have not been so bitterly divided along partisan lines since Reconstruction, nor so aggressively hostile… Continue reading

“Robin Vos won’t have to testify in Wisconsin gerrymandering case for now, and may not have to at all”

June 4, 2019, 3:57 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos won’t have to sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case in the short term — and might escape having to testify entirely. A panel of appeals judges blocked a lower court order Tuesday… Continue reading

“The New Trove of Secret Gerrymandering Files Will Be a Nightmare for the GOP”

May 31, 2019, 2:59 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: There are sure to be more revelations from the Hofeller files to come, driving home the downside of using a single consultant to mastermind redistricting across multiple states and decades.For years, Hofeller held an office… Continue reading

“Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signs law ending prison gerrymandering”

May 31, 2019, 7:12 amfelon voting, redistrictingRick Hasen

Release: Yesterday, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed a bill into law ensuring that people in state prisons will be counted as residents of their home addresses when new legislative districts are drawn. The new law makes Nevada the sixth … Continue reading

Wendy Tam Cho: “Technology-Enabled Coin Flips for Judging Partisan Gerrymandering”

May 26, 2019, 9:05 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, UncategorizedRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Wendy Tam Cho: The Court has issued a stay in the Ohio and Michigan partisan gerrymandering cases, and we await their rulings in North Carolina and Maryland. I was an expert witness… Continue reading

No Surprise: Supreme Court, Without Noted Dissent, Blocks Redraws of Ohio, Michigan Maps Found by Lower Courts to Be Partisan Gerrymanders

May 24, 2019, 1:56 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Today’s orders are no surprise. Indeed, the Court often fails to give preliminary relief in redistricting cases even when the plaintiffs eventually win on the merits. Indeed, if the Court did allow the remaps to take place while the… Continue reading

“Washington Governor Jay Inslee signs law ending prison gerrymandering”

May 21, 2019, 3:19 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Release: Today, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law ensuring that people in state prisons will be counted as residents of their home addresses when new legislative districts are drawn, making Washington the fifth state to… Continue reading

“Speaker Robin Vos gets temporary reprieve from appeals court in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case”

May 18, 2019, 9:02 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A panel of federal judges late Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s order that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case. In their brief order, the judges wrote that they were suspending… Continue reading