Trial to Begin in Ohio Partisan Gerrymandering Case
AP reports that the trial before the three-judge district court is scheduled to start Monday in Cincinnati.
Category Archives: redistricting
Two Members of Maryland Redistricting Commission Resign
The Baltimore Sun reports:
Two members of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s redistricting commission resigned after The Baltimore Sun asked questions about whether their participation in the body redrawing Maryland’s congressional districts violated state rules.The move came as the commission… Continue reading
Ryan Williamson, “Examining the Effects of Partisan Redistricting on Candidate Entry Decisions”
The abstract of this new ELJ article:
Redistricting has been a highly contentious topic in American politics for many decades. The many instances of politicians exploiting the redistricting process to achieve a partisan goal have been widely chronicled. Nonpartisan… Continue reading
NH House Approves Redistricting Reform Bill
Concord Monitor:
House Bill 706 passed 218-123, but only 16 members of the Republican minority voted in favor of the proposal, with 123 Republican members against.Crafted by Durham Democrat Marjorie Smith, the bill would create an independent redistricting commission… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “Tony Evers to propose nonpartisan redistricting process in budget”
“Michigan gerrymandering lawsuit now up to judges”
Detroit News:
A three-judge panel is weighing the fate of a high-profile federal lawsuit alleging gerrymandering by Republican mapmakers who drew Michigan political boundaries in 2011.Plaintiffs who sued over the maps and Republicans who are defending them on Friday… Continue reading
“American Democracy Is on the Supreme Court Docket”
Matt Ford for TNR.
“Brett Kavanaugh could decide how redistricting is done”
Todd Ruger for Roll Call.
North Carolina: “This session might be the best chance in the next decade to end gerrymandering”
Will Doran:
Now might be the best chance to end gerrymandering in North Carolina, at least for another decade, a bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday when they introduced a bill to do just that.Their proposal would end North Carolina’s… Continue reading
North Carolina: “Republicans won’t appeal ruling striking down 4 districts”
WRAL:
A key North Carolina GOP lawmaker says Republicans won’t appeal a ruling by state judges that the General Assembly violated a constitutional prohibition against mid-decade redistricting because it unnecessarily changed four House districts in 2017.
“Laboratories of Democracy Reform: State Constitutions and Partisan Gerrymandering”
Sam Wang, Richard Ober, & Ben Williams have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Despite multiple opportunities to address the issue, the Supreme Court has declined to take action on partisan gerrymandering. Here we argue that the… Continue reading
More Entries Posted at SCOTUSBlog Symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering Cases
“Gerrymandering & Justiciability: The Political Question Doctrine After Gill v. Whitford”
Mike Parsons has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Partisan gerrymandering claims occupy a unique purgatory in constitutional law, floating between justiciable and nonjusticiable. This term, the Supreme Court will finally decide. The issue said to divide… Continue reading
Utah: “A state lawmaker says a San Juan County split should be on the table, after a court-ordered redistricting that ‘disenfranchised’ his voters”
Salt Lake Tribune:
After a landmark power shift that gave San Juan County its first majority Navajo Democrat commission, a state lawmaker from mostly white, Republican Blanding is broaching the subject of secession.The sheer size of the state’s largest… Continue reading