Category Archives: redistricting
#LookingBack: Redistricting and the 2020 Election (Nick Stephanopoulos
The following is a symposium contribution from Nick Stephanapoulos (Harvard):
The following are a number of tentative thoughts about what the 2020 election means for redistricting—for both the plans currently in effect and the ones soon to be enacted.
1.… Continue reading
“Beyond the Adjustment Wars: Dealing with Uncertainty and Bias in Redistricting Data”
Jeff Zalesin at Yale Law Journal Forum. Abstract:
The Constitution requires legislative redistricting plans to have approximately equal populations in each district. But no one knows exactly how many people live in any district, because census data are never fully… Continue reading
“How next-gen computer generated maps detect partisan gerrymandering”
Science News reports.
Princeton Gerrymandering Project Is Hiring
Links to the Legal & Policy Analyst posting and the Senior Legal Strategist posting.
“The Politics We Don’t See Matter as Much as Those We Do; Party strategists pay a lot of attention to redrawing district maps — and hope you won’t bother to think about it.”
Tom Edsall NYT column.
New York: “How Democrats’ redistricting amendment could give them more power”
North Carolina “Republican who had prominent role in redistricting to retire”
WRAL:
A Republican lawmaker who played a prominent role in North Carolina’s redistricting process announced Friday that he will not seek reelection this fall and will instead retire from his post at the end of the year.Citing a “great… Continue reading
“How Congress can stop gerrymandering: Deny seats to states that do it.”
Lee Hamilton, William Cohen and Alton Frye WaPo oped.
California: “Supreme Court orders redistricting delay”
At the Lectern:
Acting with unusual speed and using an exceptional procedure in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court today issued an opinion extending by four months constitutional and statutory deadlines for the state Citizens Redistricting Commission to… Continue reading
California Supreme Court to Rule Friday on Redistricting Delay
Oregon: “Federal District Court Grants People Not Politicians an Extension”
Release:
A federal district court issued a preliminary order granting People Not Politicians, a broad and diverse coalition to create an independent citizens commission for Oregon, relief to qualify its redistricting reform initiative for the November 2020 election. The… Continue reading
“How Partisan Gerrymandering Limits Voting Rights”
New report from CAP.
California: “Supreme Court appears ready to quickly order redistricting delay”
At the Lectern reports.