“Only One Roadblock on the Road to Reform: Mitch McConnell”
The NY Times Editorial Board calls
HR 1 the “Merrick Garland of reform legislation.”
Category Archives: redistricting
More on the Census Bureau’s collection of administrative citizenship data
The Washington Post goes
deeper on this story,
of the Census Bureau collecting administrative data (including citizenship
information) to bolster household-by-household census results.
Amicus Briefs Supporting Plaintiffs in the MD/NC Partisan Gerrymandering Cases Are In
H.R. 1 Coverage Roundup
House Passes H.R. 1
Final vote: 234-193.
UPDATE: The text of the whole thing [will be] here. (As of 7:30pm ET on 3/8/19, the only text appears to be from an earlier version: the version actually considered is a combination of this… Continue reading
Pushback to the 2018 Missouri redistricting citizens’ initiative
The Springfield News-Leader reports:
Last fall, Missouri voters approved a one-of-a-kind plan to root out partisan gerrymandering with 62 percent of the vote. Republicans unhappy with the changes are now trying to roll them back. Five GOP lawmakers, including… Continue reading
“Ahead of court ruling, Census Bureau seeks citizenship data”
The AP has more on the latest at the Census Bureau.
I think this is an effort to gather the administrative data that Census employees said would be more effective at assessing statistical citizenship rates, with fewer downsides for public… Continue reading
“Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans”
Big
(and voluminous) news from California: in a 126-page
opinion, Judge Seeborg has enjoined the inclusion of a question regarding
citizenship on the 2020 census.
The decision follows on Judge Furman’s opinion out of New
York, but is more… Continue reading
Stay of NC State Ct Order Voiding Voter ID Amendment Because Enacted by Impermissibly Gerrymandered Legislature
On February 22, Rick noted that a North Carolina state
trial court had voided a constitutional amendment pertaining to voter ID,
because the amendment had been put on the ballot by a legislature elected
pursuant to an unconstitutional
gerrymander. … Continue reading
“Fighting Gerrymandering in 2021”
Calling the hipsters at SXSW: I got an idea for your
Friday afternoon.
Plaintiffs’ Merits Brief in Maryland Redistricting Case
From Plaintiffs-Appellees’ Brief filed in the Supreme Court yesterday:
A State may not inhibit “the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others.” McCutcheon v. FEC, 572 U.S. 185, 191 (2014). Given this insuperable principle,… Continue reading
Merits Briefs in N.C. Gerrymandering Case
Plaintiffs-Appellees have filed their briefs in Rucho v. Common Cause/League of Women Voters.
From the Common Cause plaintiffs’ brief:
The 2016 North Carolina Congressional Plan (“2016 Plan” or “Plan”) is the most overt, and likely the… Continue reading
Holder Says He Won’t Run for President, Will Focus on Redistricting
WaPo op-ed:
Though I will not run for president in 2020, I will continue to fight for the future of our country through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and its affiliates. For too long, Democrats have lost sight of… Continue reading
Big 10 Redistricting Conference
I’m off to College Park this afternoon for the Big Ten Strategic Partnership for Applied Redistricting Knowledge (SPARK) Conference Monday and Tuesday, hosted by the University of Maryland.