Category Archives: redistricting

“This year’s House battlefield is almost locked in. The next decade is still wide open.”

April 27, 2022, 11:03 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Politico: The midterm House map is nearly complete. Six months before Election Day, just a few straggling states are waiting to finalize their lines and a handful of court cases challenging new lines are outstanding.Several of the legal cases… Continue reading

“Redistricting legal challenge could present ‘a real mess’ for New York voters”

April 25, 2022, 9:47 amredistrictingRick Hasen

The latest.

Breaking: New York Appellate Court Holds NY’s Congressional Redistricting is a Partisan Gerrymander Violating the State Constitution, Gives Legislature Until April 30 to Draw a New Map

April 21, 2022, 2:53 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

You can find the ruling at this link. The ruling can still be appealed to NY’s highest appellate court. Anyone expect Democrats to raise the independent state legislature doctrine, arguing that the NY legislature can draw whatever maps it wants… Continue reading

Florida: “DeSantis-sanctioned congressional map passes after Black lawmaker sit in”

April 21, 2022, 11:36 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: The Florida House gave final passage to a new congressional map blessed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that favors Republicans in as many as four U.S. House seats and erases a seat held by a Black Democrat following… Continue reading

The “primary” link between two seemingly different stories

April 21, 2022, 7:13 amalternative voting systems, redistrictingNed Foley

Earlier this morning I blogged about the institutional structure that caused McCarthy and McConnell to cave in response to pressure from their Trump-supporting GOP base. Superficially, one might think that yesterday’s news about the federal court’s decision regarding Ohio’s redistricting… Continue reading

Breaking: Three-Judge Federal Court, Dividing on Party Lines, Allows Ohio to Use Partisan Gerrymandered Map Helping Republicans in Upcoming State Legislative Elections that Ohio Supreme Court Said Was Unconstitutional

April 20, 2022, 4:40 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

You can find the majority opinion by Judge Thapar and the dissent by Judge Marbley at this link. The dissent seems correct that this case has created perverse incentives for Ohio Republicans to run out the clock to… Continue reading

“A standard for fair seat proportions in our winner-take-all system”

April 19, 2022, 2:27 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Jeff Barton: When considering a district map, the term “partisan advantage” as introduced by Jon Eguia and advocated by Alec Ramsay refers to the difference between a party’s ideal and actual seat… Continue reading

“Explainer: Wisconsin’s New State Legislative Maps Compare Unfavorably to Other Court-Adopted Maps on Partisan Equity”

April 18, 2022, 8:01 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Rob Yablon blogs.

“Democrats’ redistricting gains hit a roadblock: The Supreme Court”

April 15, 2022, 7:13 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

WaPo: Wisconsin Democrats thought they had won the redistricting war. They took over the governor’s office, competed in and won state judicial races and filed lawsuits as early as they could, determined to prevent another cycle of Republican-leaning maps.… Continue reading

“DeSantis draws congressional map that would dramatically expand GOP’s edge in Florida”

April 14, 2022, 11:54 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NBC News: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a new congressional map that would create four more Republican-leaning districts and wipe out Democrats’ national redistricting advantage.The map — which would carve up a Black-held district — was released Wednesday… Continue reading

“Florida Legislature will let DeSantis draw US House maps”

April 12, 2022, 12:05 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Reid Wilson for The Hill: The legislature approved a map earlier this year that would have kept most districts largely the way they have existed in recent elections. A new district awarded to Florida after the decennial redistricting process would… Continue reading

“Stung by redistricting rulings, Republicans target state court elections”

April 11, 2022, 7:29 amjudicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

Reuters: Republicans are vowing to spend record amounts in key state supreme court races this fall, seeking to take advantage of a favorable national political environment to elect conservative judges at the state level amid deep political divisions.A string… Continue reading

“With New York District Lines On Hold, Judge Blesses Possible Backup Plan”

April 9, 2022, 1:47 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: A New York appeals court judge on Friday signed off on the appointment of a neutral expert to prepare new congressional district lines that could be used if the state’s highest court upholds a lower-court ruling that struck down… Continue reading