Category Archives: redistricting
“Partisan Gerrymandering, the First Amendment, and the Political Outsider”
Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Columbia Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The most recent call for judicial intervention into state partisan gerrymandering practices ran aground on the shoals of standing doctrine in Gill v. Whitford.… Continue reading
With North Carolina Supreme Court Now Holding Democratic Majority, Republicans in North Carolina Legislature Seek to Move Partisan Gerrymandering Case to Federal Court
Michael Li has the details in this twitter thread:
North Carolina Republicans have removed the state-court partisan gerrymandering case challenging the state's legislative maps to federal court. Notice of removal here: https://t.co/cNnNyci9bW #fairmaps #ncpol 1/
— Michael Li 李之樸… Continue reading
“Jersey Democrats cancel vote on controversial redistricting plan”
NJ.com:
Inundated with fierce opposition from across the political spectrum, Democrats who lead the New Jersey Legislature have abruptly shelved a controversial redistricting plan that critics say could bolster their power for decades.
Democratic leaders had scheduled a vote for… Continue reading
“Va. House GOP asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop new electoral map”
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Republican leaders in the Virginia House of Delegates have formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block a lower court’s efforts to redraw the House map for the 2019 elections.
In a court filing… Continue reading
“Democrats in New Jersey Have a Firm Grip on Power. They Want Even More.”
NYT:
Legislative power brokers across the country have long designed district lines in back-room deals that entrenched their control for years, if not decades. But now, Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey are carrying out a power grab in an unusually… Continue reading
Supreme Court Might Not Hear North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case Until Next Term, Meaning Possible Decision in June 2020, and Potentially Leaving NC Districts in Place for 2020 Elections and Perhaps Rendering Case Moot
So predicts key Court watcher John Elwood:
My instinct is Court won't act before 1/4 conference. I suspect they'll reschedule until late January, so argument would come next fall. I doubt John Roberts wants to revisit an issue that flummoxed… Continue reading
“J.H. Snider: A jury should decide on Maryland’s next redistricting map”
Column in the Capital Gazette.
“With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash”
NYT:
The continuing legislative maneuvers in Michigan and Wisconsin are part of a broader war for power in the Midwest, a politically prized region for both parties — but especially for Republicans, who are trying to dilute Democratic control ahead… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Austin, Texas Low Campaign Contributions Case, Takes No Action on North Carolina Gerrymandering Petition
With no noted dissent, the Supreme Court has turned down a cert. petition in the Zimmerman campaign finance case from Austin Texas. I flagged this case (along with a Montana case that the Court will consider taking up in January)… Continue reading
“Supreme Court discussing partisan gerrymandering behind closed doors Friday”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
“Do State Legislators have Standing to Appeal a District Court Racial Gerrymandering Ruling?”
New post at State of Elections.
Maryland: “New partisan gerrymander case reaches Justices”
Lyle Denniston:
Arguing that a state should not have to re-draw its congressional districts twice in a short time span, Maryland officials asked the Supreme Court on Monday to rule that the existing map can be used again in… Continue reading
“Missouri first to adopt fairness test against gerrymandering”
AP:
Other states have created independent commissions and required bipartisan votes to redraw legislative and congressional districts. Missouri will be the first to rely on a new mathematical formula to try to engineer “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” in its state… Continue reading