“Assessing the Legality of Ohio Supreme Court’s Decision to Deny Moving Primary Election Date”
Mark Brown for Jurist.
Category Archives: redistricting
“Maryland Gov. Hogan signs redrawn congressional district map, ending monthslong legal and legislative battle”
Baltimore Sun:
Gov. Larry Hogan, ending a monthslong legal and legislative tussle with Democrats, signed a map of Maryland’s congressional districts on Monday that the General Assembly redrew after a judge rejected the first version as extremely partisan.Hogan,… Continue reading
“As Both Parties Gerrymander Furiously, State Courts Block the Way”
Breaking: NY State Court Finds That New York’s Congressional Maps Violate the State Constitution By Being a Democratic Party Gerrymander and Need to Be Redrawn
You can find the 18-page ruling here, a ruling which is sure to be appealed. If the ruling stands and New York does not draw batter maps, the court will appoint a neutral expert to do so.
I’m guessing that… Continue reading
“The US supreme court’s assault on voting rights hits a new low”
Sam Levine for The Guardian:
Even for experts who closely follow the US supreme court, there was something stunning about an emergency decision from the justices on Wednesday.In an unexpected move, the court decided to throw out new… Continue reading
“G.O.P. Presses for Greater Edge on Florida and Ohio Congressional Maps”
NYT:
With the midterm election cycle fast approaching, Republicans in the key states of Florida and Ohio have made critical progress in their push to add to their dominance on congressional maps by carving new districts that would be… Continue reading
“Why redistricting has stalled in 4 unfinished states”
Politico reports.
The final stage of the redistricting cycle has arrived: gridlock.Spats between governors and state legislators — and between different Republican factions — have brought map-making to a standstill in the final four states still without new congressional… Continue reading
“Litigating Gerrymandering in the Post-Rucho World: State Law and Political Maps”
“Gerrymandering and the Limits of Representative Democracy”
New article from Kai Hao Yang and Alexander Zentefis:
We assess the capacity of gerrymandering to undermine the will of the people in a representative democracy. Citizens have political positions represented on a spectrum, and electoral maps separate people into… Continue reading
Some recent law student scholarship on election law
This weekend, I’ll blog about some recent election law scholarship. I thought I’d start by highlighting a few student notes that caught my eye in recent weeks:
Kyle Apple (Iowa), Gerrymandering the Presidency: Why Federal District Popular Voting Presents a … Continue reading
Election litigation update for week ending March 25, 2022
Filing a complaint or winning a judgment are actions good enough to earn the headlines, but there’s plenty of election litigation ongoing throughout the United States at various stages. A taste of a few things that happened over the past… Continue reading
“Federal judges mull trimming Ohio early voting among other options to address redistricting delays”
Out of the frying pan, from Cleveland.com:
A federal court is considering whether to order Ohio to trim its early voting period for the May 3 primary election to buy more time for the state’s stalled redistricting efforts.During a… Continue reading
“Judge throws out Maryland congressional map over ‘extreme’ gerrymandering”
Meagan Flynn at the Washington Post:
Maryland judge has thrown out the state’s congressional map, calling it an “extreme partisan gerrymander” in what is a victory for Republicans who said Democrats in the state General Assembly sought to silence… Continue reading
“Michigan Supreme Court tosses partisan fairness lawsuit challenging state House map”
Detroit Free Press:
The Michigan Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Friday alleging that the state House map drawn by the redistricting commission is unfair to Democrats. In a 5-2 ruling, the court upheld the new state House districts. In… Continue reading