Category Archives: redistricting
“Did Greg Abbott Just Save the Voting Rights Act?”
Texas Lawbook: “The Texas Attorney General claims in court that the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 is outdated, unnecessary and an unconstitutional encroachment on the sovereignty of the state, but his legal efforts may have just assured the… Continue reading
“Way Cleared for November Vote in Texas”
“Texas Election Maps To Be Debated After ID Law Rejected”
Bloomberg reports.
“Our Electoral Exceptionalism”
Nick Stephanopoulos has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming U Chicago Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Election law suffers from a comparative blind spot. Scholars in the field have devoted almost no attention to how other countries organize their… Continue reading
About Those Attempts to Redo the Texas District Lines for This Election…..
the 3-judge-court in San Antonio ain’t buying it.
That’s what I expected, and it’s clearly the right call so close to the election and after the delayed primaries.
“Minority, Dem groups act to challenge interim redistricting maps”
San Antonio Express-News: “Several key minority and Democratic groups took a first step Wednesday toward challenging Texas’ interim redistricting maps, put in place for the 2012 election, by filing a request for a preliminary hearing in federal court.”
I… Continue reading
“Process Failure and Transparency Reform in Local Redistricting: Harnessing the Power of 21st-Century Technologies to Fix 19th-Century Democracies”
Michael Halberstam has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Election Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Redistricting reform during this cycle has pushed for greater transparency in redistricting, more public participation, the removal of redistricting from the hands of legislatures,… Continue reading
Kuff’s World on the Texas Redstricting Decision
Here.
“Democracy on the High Wire: Citizen Commission Implementation of the Voting Rights Act”
Justin Levitt has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The Voting Rights Act, often praised as the most successful civil rights statute, is among the most fact-intensive of election regulations. California, the country’s most populous and most… Continue reading
“Texas Voter District Maps Rejected by U.S. Judges”
Texas Redistricting Story Roundup
Will the Texas Redistricting Opinion Affect This November’s Elections?
I thought the answer was certainly “no,” but Michael Li offers some alternative possibilities.
On Going Straight to Federal Court with a Section 5 Challenge
A reader writes:
What are the odds that Hans von Spakovsky will admit this was bad advice?
Abusing the Voting Rights Act
The lesson here is that Republican-controlled legislatures that have drawn up redistricting plans that Democrats don’t like would… Continue reading