Category Archives: redistricting
“Pennsylvania Could Be On The Verge Of Dealing Partisan Gerrymandering A Big Blow”
Sam Levine for HuffPo:
Pennsylvania’s highest court could be on the verge of setting unprecedented limits on how much politicians can redraw electoral districts to their party’s advantage, a decision that would have profound legal and political consequences both in… Continue reading
“Adventures in Extreme Gerrymandering: See the Fair and Wildly Unfair Maps We Made for Pennsylvania”
NYT’s The Upshot:
This week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider whether the state’s harshly gerrymandered congressional map violates the state’s constitution.
The case is happening early enough in the year that the court could order a redrawn map ahead… Continue reading
Supreme Court Dismisses Texas Democratic Party Petition Raising Partisan Gerrymandering Case, After Agreeing to Hear Texas Appeal on Voting Rights Act and Racial Gerrymandering Issues
I noted on Friday the Supreme Court’s order to hear two Texas redistricting appeals raising claims under the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution (including racially discriminatory intent and racial gerrymandering claims). I also noted that the Court did not… Continue reading
“A Case for Math, Not ‘Gobbledygook,’ in Judging Partisan Voting Maps”
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column.
“On Partisan Gerrymandering, What’s Up?”
“The Supreme Court takes on two redistricting cases from Texas”
Steven Mazie for The Economist.
Roundup of Stories on SCOTUS Decision to Hear Texas Redistricting Cases
“Will the Court Kill the Gerrymander?”
Zachary Roth for the NYRB.
Analysis: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear (Part of) Texas Redistricting Cases, But Not Partisan Gerrymandering; What Does It Mean, and What About North Carolina?
As expected, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear both the state and congressional Texas redistricting cases, consolidating them, postponing a decision on jurisdiction (more on that below), and likely (but not certainly) setting them up for argument in… Continue reading
Likely Coming Friday: A Supreme Court Order to Hear the Texas Redistricting Cases
Tomorrow is one of the last opportunities for the Supreme Court to set cases to be argued this term, which ends in late June. Last week during its private conference the Court considered whether or not to hear the state… Continue reading
“Court ruling adds even more uncertainty to North Carolina’s 2018 elections”
The State of Play on Partisan Gerrymandering Cases at the Supreme Court
There has been so much action on partisan gerrymandering recently, I thought it is worth gaming out what is likely to happen over the next few months in relation to a number of cases at, or heading, to SCOTUS.
Back… Continue reading
Three-Judge Federal Court, on 2-1 Vote, Rejects Partisan Gerrymandering Challenge to Pa. Congressional Districts Under the Elections Clause
Via the Brennan Center’s Agre v. Wolf page, there are the three opinions (the final one is the dissent):
Final Judgment (January 10, 2018)
Memorandum by Honorable Judge Smith (January 10, 2018)
Memorandum by Honorable Judge Shwartz (January 10,… Continue reading