Amy Howe: Less than three weeks ago, the Supreme Court declined to get involved in a partisan-gerrymandering challenge to Pennsylvania’s federal congressional maps. Today that state’s Republican lawmakers returned to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to block what… Continue reading

Here is the order of the PA Supreme Court. There had been a delay in Justice Alito getting the petition, and apparently it was the wait for this formality to occur.  (The PA legislative leaders issued incorrect information that the… Continue reading

NYT’s The UpShot: The strong Democratic showing compared with Mr. Chen’s simulations doesn’t necessarily indicate that the map is a Democratic gerrymander. For one, the simulations aren’t perfect. And they aren’t necessarily representative of realistic partisan-blind maps. To take a… Continue reading

NYT: President Trump added his voice on Saturday to the continued conservative outcry over the court-ordered redistricting of the Pennsylvania congressional map, calling the decision “very unfair to Republicans and to our country.” “Democrat judges have totally redrawn election lines… Continue reading

Yesterday I wrote about the new federal lawsuit being brought against the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s partisan gerrymandering remedy for state congressional redistricts. I explained why this is such a long shot. I noted then that the challengers sought a… Continue reading

Ned Foley has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay makes three contributions to the debate over whether the Constitution contains a judicially enforceable constraint on gerrymanders. First, it directly tackles the Chief Justice’s fear of… Continue reading

You can find the complaint (which may or may not have already been filed) at this link.  Some of the plaintiffs are members of Congress who are not parties to the other litigation, so the Rooker-Feldman doctrine may not apply… Continue reading