Category Archives: redistricting
“Wisconsin’s Democratic governor rejects GOP’s surprise redistricting plan”
AP:
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers shot down as “bogus” a surprise plan Republicans floated Tuesday that would have the Legislature approve new maps drawn by nonpartisan staff, preempting the state Supreme Court from tossing the current GOP-drawn boundaries.
The… Continue reading
“How the Supreme Court Should Respond to Alabama’s Defiance”
Kate Shaw for the NYT:
Alabama’s appeal confronts the Supreme Court with a profound test. The case may appear to involve a set of technical questions about one state’s legislative map. But it is more fundamentally about whether the Supreme… Continue reading
“Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Revisit Dispute Over Congressional Map”
NYT:
Alabama filed an emergency application in the Supreme Court on Monday evening, asking the justices to keep in place for now a congressional map that a lower court had found failed to comply with orders to establish a second… Continue reading
“How a New City Council Map of L.A. Turned Into a Political Brawl”
NYT:
The redistricting battle in Los Angeles underscores how some big city leaders — often Democrats — have used gerrymandering for their political advantage, much the way Republican lawmakers have redrawn legislative lines to secure or expand their control over… Continue reading
“Dems inch toward House majority with recent court wins”
Politico:
The fundamentals of the 2024 campaign are still taking shape, but one thing is already clear: A flurry of court actions might cost Republicans the House majority.
In the past nine days, state and federal judges threw out two… Continue reading
“Ohio will use same unconstitutional congressional maps in 2024, as court dismisses legal challenges”
Cleveland.com:
Ohio will use the same congressional districts in 2024 that it used last year, as the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday granted the dismissal of two legal challenges to the map the court previously deemed to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered… Continue reading
New Jersey Inquiry into Its Redistricting Process Finds “No Merit” to “Unspecified Claims of Improprieties” against Sam Wang and Princeton Redistricting Group; Inquiry Sees “Ample Room” for Improving the Process
“Alabama will appeal rejection of congressional map to U.S. Supreme Court”
Al.com reports.
“Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks”
Deep dive by Bob Barnes for WaPo:
Other changes attributable to Kennedy’s departure have drawn less attention. For years, Kennedy was alone among the conservative justices in believing extreme partisan gerrymandering —drawing legislative districts to favor the political party in… Continue reading
“A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat”
AP:
Democrats could gain a seat in the U.S. House and multiple seats in Georgia’s Legislature if a judge rules Republicans drew maps illegally weakening Black voters’ power.
The trial beginning Tuesday is part of a wave of litigation progressing… Continue reading
“Florida redistricting lawsuit overturns DeSantis map, empowers Black voters”
The Tributary:
A state judge struck down North Florida’s congressional districts Saturday, rebuffing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ open defiance of anti-gerrymandering protections, finding the governor’s map illegally reduced Black voters’ electoral power.
DeSantis had wagered the state’s Fair Districts Amendment… Continue reading
“Federal judge to decide whether new Jefferson County Commission district lines are racially unfair”
AL.com:
The future leadership of Alabama’s largest county is in the hands of a federal judge who will decide whether Jefferson County commissioners gerrymandered district lines to dwarf the voting rights of Black residents.
In a five-hour hearing Wednesday Judge… Continue reading
“Dems tap Obama for crucial redistricting push”
Politico:
The House majority next year could be determined in a state-by-state fight over redistricting that’s taking place right now.
And Democrats are calling in the big guns.
Former President Barack Obama hosted a fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting… Continue reading