“Texas’s Primaries are Happening on a Legally Disputed Congressional Map”
WaPo interactive on growing Latino voting power.
Category Archives: redistricting
“North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge”
NYT:
A North Carolina court rejected a Republican-drawn map of the state’s 14 congressional districts on Wednesday and substituted its own version, the second time in less than two weeks that a court in the state has invalidated a… Continue reading
“Finger-pointing, apologies, pleas for more time: Ohio Redistricting Commission members explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court”
Cleveland.com:
Asked to explain why the Ohio Supreme Court shouldn’t punish them for failing to pass state legislative maps late last week, majority Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission pointed fingers at each other Wednesday, saying in court filings… Continue reading
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has picked a new congressional map”
Philly Inquirer:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has selected a new congressional map that will shape power and politics in the state for the next decade.In a 4-3 decision Wednesday, the court chose a map that was drawn by a Stanford… Continue reading
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to Ask
New ELB Podcast:
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to AskWhy did the Supreme Court put on hold a federal district court order… Continue reading
Watch Video of My Appearance on CBS News Talking About the Supreme Court’s Order in the Alabama Redistricting Case
You can watch here.
Fair Districting Advocates in Ohio Take Steps Toward Holding Ohio Redistricting Commission in Contempt for Failure to Produce Fair Maps
Motion.
Update: The Ohio Supreme Court has called for a response as to why the members of the Commission should not be held in contempt.
“Republican activists sue in federal court in bid to institute legislative maps rejected by Ohio Supreme Court as GOP gerrymanders”
Cleveland.com:
A group of Republican activists are suing the Ohio Redistricting Commission, trying to get a panel of federal judges to bypass the Ohio Supreme Court and impose a map proposal the state court previously rejected as an… Continue reading
Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinion Issued in North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case
When the NC Supreme Court recently rejected the state’s congressional and state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander under the state constitution, the court promised opinions to follow.
You can now find 217 pages of opinions at this link… Continue reading
“No legal battles for California’s new election maps. But what lessons can be learned?”
Cal Matters:
As the clock struck midnight on Feb. 10, 14 people scattered around California collectively exhaled in relief.The 14 are members of the state’s independent citizens redistricting commission who drew 120 new districts for the Legislature, 52 for… Continue reading
Must-Read Adam Serwer: “The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination”
Adam Serwer for the Atlantic:
I have a hard time believing that anyone sincerely thinks that drawing districts that limit the political influence of Black voters in a state where Black people comprise more than a quarter of the… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Has Crossed the Rubicon”
Linda Greenhouse NYT column:
You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels… Continue reading
Watch Video of Laura Coates Interview Derrick Johnson and Me at CNN on Supreme Court’s Stay in Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case
“Ohio Supreme Court again rejects legislative maps, sends redistricting commission back to drawing board”
Columbus Dispatch:
The Ohio Supreme Court once again rejected legislative maps that Republicans drew to disproportionately favor their candidates, sending mapmakers back to the drawing board and Ohio’s primary into massive uncertainty.For the second time, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor… Continue reading