Category Archives: redistricting

“Judicial Redistricting and the Article I State Legislature”

October 3, 2014, 7:45 amelection administration, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This Saul Zipkin piece from 2003 could be useful in thinking about the Arizona redistricting case the Supreme Court has agreed to take. Here is the abstract: Article I of the Constitution commits primary responsibility for the setting of time,… Continue reading

“U.S. high court could toss out Ariz. voting boundaries”

October 2, 2014, 7:29 pmcitizen commissions, Elections Clause, redistrictingRick Hasen

The Arizona Republic reports.

“Fate of non-partisan redistricting on the line”

October 2, 2014, 10:07 amcitizen commissions, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lyle Denniston blogs.

“The Supreme Court Just Took A Case That Could Make Partisan Gerrymandering Even Worse”

October 2, 2014, 8:40 amcitizen commissions, Elections Clause, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser blogs.

Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Redistricting Case and Florida Case on Judicial Campaign Speech: Analysis

October 2, 2014, 6:36 amcampaigns, citizen commissions, judicial elections, redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The number of election laws the Supreme Court has heard with a full argument has dropped off in recent years, I believe in part because voting rights advocates have tried to stay out of the Supreme Court. (See my ELJ… Continue reading

“Judge Edits ‘Independent’ From Ballot Proposition”

September 17, 2014, 8:13 pmcitizen commissions, direct democracy, redistrictingRick Hasen

NY Law Journal: A judge Wednesday ordered state elections officials to delete the word “independent” from the description and text of a proposition on November’s general election ballot that would create a new commission to oversee the redrawing of… Continue reading

“The G.O.P.’s Edge in House Elections”

September 13, 2014, 2:51 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Letters to the Editor Re “Why Democrats Can’t Win” (The Upshot, Sunday Review, Sept. 7).

“Far From Over, Florida’s Redistricting Wrangles Now Focus on State Senate Boundaries”

September 10, 2014, 4:50 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

See here.

Prison Gerrymandering Case in Rhode Island Survives Motion to Dismiss

September 9, 2014, 7:26 amfelon voting, redistrictingRick Hasen

Press release (Prisoners of the Census). Order.

“Gerrymandering and the Big Sort Fallacy”

September 8, 2014, 7:01 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Weigel responds to Nate Cohn.

Supreme Court to Hear Alabama Redistricting Cases Nov. 12

September 4, 2014, 11:45 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Calendar.

“In state Capitol, intransigence gives way to bipartisan deal-making”

August 31, 2014, 6:15 amcampaigns, citizen commissions, political parties, political polarization, primaries, redistrictingRick Hasen

Important report from Chris Megerian in the LAT. What’s really interesting is that Chris does not mention either the top-two primary or citizen redistricting as connected to this new (perhaps temporary) period of bipartisan cooperation. I’ve been skeptical of claims… Continue reading