NAACP sues Commerce Dept for 2020 Census records
Missed this on Thursday: The NAACP has filed a FOIA case to get records about preparations for the 2020 Census.
Category Archives: redistricting
“Political Road Map: How California went from worst to first in drawing fair political maps”
John Myers for the LA Times, with a little history.
Even more on Gill
Asher Steinberg blogs up a storm.
And the Detroit Free Press highlights Eric Lander’s brief and the role of science.
“The Democrats’ Gerrymandering Obsession”
It’s a day full of would-be reminders for Democrats, for some reason. Jeff Greenfield points out that Democrats have lost races for reasons other than gerrymandering. I’m not sure anyone disagrees.
More on Gill
This is yet another article attempting to explain Gill away by saying that the cause of the gerrymandering problem is natural concentration of Democrats in urban areas.
The challenge in Gill, of course, is limited to those plans in which… Continue reading
Gill and amici
Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case had, by far, most amicus briefs of any SCOTUS case since 2013. https://t.co/VyJCBUVGqL #fairmaps pic.twitter.com/Bi7Eys9XvD
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) October 7, 2017
“Gerrymandering and ‘gobbledygook’”
I had the chance to speak yesterday with the Daily Journal’s Weekly Appellate Report podcast, about Gill and also a bunch of other stuff. For your consideration…
“How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science”
A post from Jordan Ellenberg, in the weekend NYT.
FWIW, I’m hardly a Luddite, but I’m a little skeptical of the gerrymandering-and-technology story, at least in its strongest form. It is unquestionably true that technology has democratized both gerrymandering… Continue reading
North Carolina says it has the “strictest anti-gerrymandering” standards in America.
Politifact says otherwise.
Redistricting and campaign finance
Eliza Newlin Carney goes deep on the funding of redistricting fights.
Further parsing the Gill oral argument
Mike Parsons on an exchange prompted by Justice Sotomayor.
Rick Esenberg says the court should just stay out entirely.
CNN talks about the cameras that weren’t inside.
And Eric McGhee, who claims the much-discussed “efficiency gap” as his own, blogs … Continue reading
“Politicians should get over their allergy to academia”
This op-ed about politicians actually takes off from Chief Justice Roberts’ “gobbledygook” quote in Gill. I also had a strong reaction to the “fake folksiness.” (It’s immune to Benadryl.)
Continuing reaction to the Gill v. Whitford argument
Dave Daley in the New Yorker.