“If the Supreme Court Won’t Prevent Gerrymandering, Who Will?”
Sam Wang in the NYT looks
to the states.
Category Archives: redistricting
Citizenship and the Census: Behind the Bluster
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
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
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
As Michael Li explains, on All
Things Considered.
Hofeller’s files in North Carolina
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”
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”
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?
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
Here, at the Public Discourse.
“It’s Not Just the White House in 2020. The Power to Draw Maps Is Also at Stake.”
Rebecca Green: A Spade is a Spade (Rucho Symposium)
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)
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)
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