“Argument preview: Texas, the courts, and minority voters”
Lyle Denniston offers this extensive preview at SCOTUSBlog.
Category Archives: redistricting
Texas Redistricting SCOTUS Previews
“Weightless Votes”
Joseph Fiskin has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming in Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Does one-person-one-vote protect persons, or voters? The Court has never resolved this question. Current practice overwhelmingly favors equal representation for equal numbers… Continue reading
“Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn is Nonsense”
CalBuzz reports.
“Texas redistricting brief argues for demise of Voting Rights Act”
Linda Campbell has written this important column.
“Texas Case Could Lead to Changes in Voting Rights Act”
ABC News reports.
“Texas election map fight goes before Supreme Court”
Reuters reports.
Holy Irony Dept: Rick Perry Edition!
Many have already noted that Rick Perry’s lawsuit to get on the ballot in Virginia asks a federal court judge to overrule state law, in great tension with Perry’s oft-asserted states’ rights position.
But it gets better. Perry, whose state… Continue reading
“Chemerinsky on 3 Texas Election Cases with Potential for ‘Enormous’ Consequences”
Here, in the ABA Journal.
“Supreme Court to Examine Texas Redistricting”
Joan Biskupic reports for USA Today.
Plaintiffs Petition Fifth Circuit En Banc in City of Irving Case Involving Counting Non-Citizens in Redistricting
Read the petition.
Brennan Center Preview of SCOTUS Texas Redistricting Case
Here.
“New Study Evaluates Maps Drawn by California Redistricting Commission”
UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies has issued this press release about this new report.
“Texas Primaries Await U.S. Supreme Court Ruling”
The Texas Tribune reports.