“Iowa’s Other Peculiar Institution”
David Schoenbaum on Iowa redistricting at the NYT “Campaign Stops” blog.
Category Archives: redistricting
SCOTUSBlog Community Today on Texas Redistricting Cases
Here.
“D.C. Court Orders Texas to Produce Documents”
Texas Redistricting reports.
Quote of the Day
“[I]f only California had a tax on phony outrage — we could balance the budget.”
Joe Mathews, on the dispute over ProPublica’s report on California’s citizen redistricting commission.
“Redistricting Spurs Debate Over Voting Rights Act”
Roll Call reports.
Nate Persily to Draw Connecticut Districts
See here.
“U.S. opposes Texas election maps”
Lyle Denniston reports.
DOJ Files SCOTUS Brief Mostly Supporting District Court Interim Maps in Texas Redistricting Case
You can read the brief here. (Texas redistricting has all the amicus briefs filed so far here.) As I expected, DOJ (and soon the respondents) make much of the D.C. Circuit’s recent opinion denying preclearance of the… Continue reading
“Redistricting Report Roils California Politics”
Politico reports.
“Special hearing set for redistricting writ petition”
News from California: “The Supreme Court has scheduled a special January 10 oral argument for the Redistricting writ petition. It’s been only 19 days since the court agreed to decide the petition and set an “extremely expedited briefing schedule”… Continue reading
“New Washington map creates competitive district”
The Fix reports.
“D.C. panel issues decision defining preclearance standards”
This item appears at the Kuff’s World blog of the Houston Chronicle.
“Press round up: Preclearance, the future of section 5 & more”
Here, at Texas Redistricting.
“Did California Dems game redistricting?”
That’s today’s question at Politico’s Arena.