Cleveland.com: Under the Ohio Constitution, all seven members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission are supposed to be on equal footing.But in reality, only two commissioners, who have a direct stake in what new state legislative maps look like, had… Continue reading

Democrats had proposed Cain, Grofman, or Persily and Republicans had proposed three Republican political operatives. The justices are supposed to pick one from each list for two masters to draw districts together. The state supreme court told Va. Republicans to … Continue reading

AP: North Carolina’s plan drew instant criticism for its aggressive approach, but it’s hardly alone. Experts and lawmakers tracking the once-a-decade redistricting process see a cycle of supercharged gerrymandering. With fewer legal restraints and amped up political stakes, both… Continue reading

Oregon Live: Oregon lawmakers do not have to follow a state law that prohibits drawing political maps to benefit a specific individual because as legislators they have authority to override that statute, according to a new court filing by lawyers… Continue reading

NBC News: Michigan Republicans, blocked by voters from being directly involved in redrawing the state’s voting maps, launched a coordinated effort to influence the independent commission tasked with the job, an action documented in a series of recordings obtained… Continue reading

Gabriella Limón for the Brennan Center: The American population is becoming more Latino, and fast. Yet Latino communities across the country remain shut out of real political power, sidelined from representation by rigged districts expressly designed to suppress their… Continue reading

AP: A decade ago, North Carolina Republicans redrew their legislative districts to help their party in a way that a federal court ruled illegally deprived Black voters of their right to political representation. A state court later struck down Republican-drawn… Continue reading

I have written this post for the State and Local Government Law Blog. A taste: But the same issue may resurface, with a more conservative Supreme Court majority, as to the power of state courts to apply state constitutions in… Continue reading

Russell Berman for The Atlantic: To rid the country of partisan gerrymandering, Democrats for years joined with election reformers to take the responsibility for redistricting away from politicians and hand it to independent, nonpartisan commissions. The effort did not… Continue reading

Announcement via email: The Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Electoral Innovation Lab have announced the publication of A Judge’s Guide to Redistricting. This Guide is designed to help state court judges handle inevitable litigation during this redistricting cycle, by providing… Continue reading

Oregon Live: Four Republican former elected officials asked a court Monday to invalidate what they say is an “obvious, extreme, partisan gerrymander” of Oregon’s congressional district map.The quartet filed their suit exactly two weeks after Oregon’s House and… Continue reading

Colby Itkowitz WaPo column.