Category Archives: redistricting
“Let’s move beyond winner-take-all elections”
Rob Richie’s contribution to WaPo Evenwel symposium.
“Va. House map constitutional, federal judges rule”
WaPo:
A panel of three federal judges ruled Thursday that the 12 House of Delegates districts that Democrats challenged in federal court are constitutional, giving Republicans a win for now in Virginia’s fraught political map-making battle.
The 2-to-1 ruling comes… Continue reading
Read Plaintiffs’ #SCOTUS Reply Brief in Evenwel
More Posts in WaPo’s “In Theory” Symposium on Evenwel
Texas Opposes Preliminary Injunction in Never-Ending Redistricting Case
Read it here (my earlier coverage).
Shapiro v. McManus Preview
Howard Wasserman at SCOTUSBlog:
In Shapiro v. McManus, to be argued on Wednesday, November 4, the Court will consider the proper distribution of power in cases potentially governed by the three-judge procedure. Specifically, the Court must decide whether a… Continue reading
“‘One person, one vote’ isn’t broken, and the Supreme Court shouldn’t fix it.”
Nate Persily in WaPo, part of an Evenwel symposium:
In the end, the Evenwel appellants are asking the court to change the constitutional rules of the game just as Latinos are advancing down the field. Almost without exception, states have… Continue reading
“Are Ohio Voters About to Fix Politics?”
Cincinnati Enquirer:
If voters approve the ballot initiative this November, Ohio could become a nationwide leader on how to draw lines for state lawmakers’ districts, said Michael Li, an elections expert at New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center… Continue reading
ACLU Also Responds to Liptak One Person, One Vote Prisoner Piece
Here.
“The NY Times column on Evenwel and prison gerrymandering hinges on superficial contradictions”
The Prison Gerrymandering Project responds to Adam Liptak:
The Evenwel plaintiffs seek to entirely exclude all non-citizens from redistricting counts, regardless of their residence in, and strong ties to, the community in which they are counted. By contrast, the… Continue reading
“The Paradox of Fairness and Competition in Virginia Redistricting”
FairVote:
The most recent scuffle over congressional redistricting in Virginia illustrates how poor a job single-winner districts do at achieving meaningful elections with fair results.
“Federal court rejects lawsuit challenging anti-gerrymandering law”
Miami Herald:
In a stinging blow to opponents of the state’s anti-gerrymandering amendments, a federal court this week has thrown out a lawsuit filed by two Florida Republican Party officials who claimed the new law violated the constitution because… Continue reading
TX Redistricting Plaintiffs Try to Prod Dilatory Three-Judge Court
The Texas redistricting case has been pending before a three-judge court in San Antonio for a long time. The case was filed in May 2011. Supplemental briefs had been ordered, and filed, and…. nothing.
So now the plaintiffs have filed… Continue reading