Michael Parsons has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A corrosive concept has infected the roots of our democracy. This insidious notion, which has eluded judicial grasp, is that legislators may constitutionally draw electoral districts for the… Continue reading

More news from Va: The plaintiffs and the original defendants in Virginia’s congressional redistricting case want a three-judge panel to proceed with drawing a new map over the objections of Republicans in the state’s delegation. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say… Continue reading

Release: Supreme Court Case Threatens Representation of Children and Non-Citizens An Analysis of the Potential Impact of Evenwel v. Abbott on Redistricting Report and Interactive Maps   New York, NY, December 2, 2015   Population equality is the main criteria… Continue reading

You can find it here. More about the Supreme Court case, being argued Dec. 8, here at SCOTUSBlog.

This new one from Derek Muller (forthcoming Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy) going to the top of my reading list: More than fifty years after Baker v. Carr, “one person, one vote” remains essentially inviolable. Among the consequences… Continue reading

Don’t miss Lyle Denniston’s extensive preview of the Evenwel oral argument at the Supreme Court.

Ari Berman on Evenwel.

Mark Walsh previews Evenwel for the ABA Journal.

Kimberly Robinson of BNA digs in to Evenwel, Harris, and Shapiro v. McManus.

Here is the order (via Josh Gerstein).