“With 2018 election looming, Texas back in court over political maps”
Texas Tribune on the latest trial, starting today, in the never-ending Texas redistricting case.
Category Archives: redistricting
NY: “Redistricting panel with diminished role lives on with $1.5 million budget”
Times Union:
“It’s a place for patronage and to allow the respective houses to stay on top of demographic changes,” Dadey said. “They can know which seats to protect or where there are new opportunities.”
Indeed, the minority parties have… Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: Reihan Salam and Rob Richie on How to Make Congress More Bipartisan Through Ranked Choice Voting
Great NYT oped:
Next term the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Wisconsin’s election maps that could lead to a precedent-setting ruling against partisan gerrymandering — the problematic process whereby incumbents draw legislative boundaries to help their fellow partisans.… Continue reading
“Texas Redistricting Back in Court”
Michael Li:
On July 10, a three-judge panel in Texas begins a week-long trial over the state’s congressional and state house plans. Here’s what you need to know.
Take Care Podcast on WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case Before #SCOTUS
“The Supreme Court is in no hurry to protect voters from gerrymandering”
I have written this piece for the Washington Post’s PostEverything. It begins:
When it comes to assuring fair elections, the Supreme Court has a new message: Voters can wait.
Its recently completed term featured two key redistricting votes in which… Continue reading
“A Tale of (at Least) Two Gerrymanders”
Goldfeder and Perez in NYLJ.
“GOP wants new election maps for NC judges and prosecutors”
News & Observer:
A proposal to redraw North Carolina’s court districts has emerged in the final days of the General Assembly’s session.
A state House judiciary committee considered proposed maps for Superior Court and District Court judges and district attorneys… Continue reading
“Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP”
Extensive AP analysis using the efficiency gap:
The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.… Continue reading
“How Democrats Gerrymandered Their Way to Victory in Maryland”
Dave Daley in The Atlantic:
New court depositions and previously unseen emails uncover just how determined Maryland Democrats were to take a seat from the Republicans and knock 10-term veteran Roscoe Bartlett—an idiosyncratic conservative who after losing his seat retired… Continue reading
“Has the Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?”
Eric (“Efficiency Gap”) McGhee and Boris Shor have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Party polarization is perhaps the most significant political trend of the past several decades of American politics. Many observers have pinned hopes on… Continue reading
“Do we really want the Supreme Court to decide how partisan is too partisan?”
“The Supreme Court’s Chance to End the Gerrymander”
“A new Supreme Court case could rejigger electoral lines for the 2020 election”
Steve Mazie for The Economist.