“Voting Case Has Potential to Put House Further Out of Reach for Democrats”
Nate Cohn on Evenwel for NYT’s The UpShot.
Category Archives: redistricting
Nate Persily on The Supreme Court’s Big Data Problem in Evenwel
Politico:
Legitimate philosophical arguments can be made in favor of using one set of statistics over another — just as one could argue that some concerns in redistricting, such as keeping counties or communities intact, should override the concern… Continue reading
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” First Place Winner
We are thrilled to announce the first place winners of the Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” writing competition. Michael D. McDonald and Robin E. Best of Binghamton University (SUNY), authors of “Unfair Partisan Gerrymanders in Politics and Law: A Diagnostic… Continue reading
“A ‘magnificent seven’ county supervisors?”
OC Register editorial:
It’s counterintuitive, but, sometimes, one way to improve politics is to increase the number of politicians. That’s the theory behind Senate Constitutional Amendment 8, by state Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia. It would mandate that, beginning after… Continue reading
Bauer on McCutcheon, Evenwel, and the Meaning of “Constituent”
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Second Place Winner
This week, we’re announcing the winners of Common Cause’s inaugural Democracy Prize writing competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard.” Yesterday we announced the third place winner. Today we’d like to offer our congratulations to second place winners Jowei … Continue reading
Ed Blum Hints He’ll Be Done After Trying to Knock Out Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act, and One Person, One Vote
TPM:
Evenwel v. Abbott is the culmination of Blum’s decades long effort to take on racially-influenced redistricting, having failed twice before with “one person, one vote” cases that stopped at the Supreme Court’s doorstep. It is expected to be… Continue reading
“In Supreme Court redistricting case, it’s the ‘whole number of persons'”
Ackerman and Ayres LAT oped.
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Third Place Winner
As co-chairs of Common Cause’s inaugural Democracy Prize writing competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard”, it’s our privilege to announce the winners of the competition this week, as promised on Friday. First up is our third-place entry, which… Continue reading
“One Person, One Vote? The Supreme Court will consider whether equality of representation requires equal numbers of eligible voters, or equal numbers of people.”
Garrett Epps for The Atlantic.
Nate Persily Talks to Bloomberg Law’s June Grasso about Evenwel
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Winners Will Be Announced Next Week
Last year Common Cause launched the inaugural Democracy Prize Writing Competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard.” We had the honor of serving as co-chairs of the judging panel. Our goal was to encourage fresh thinking about a standard … Continue reading
Misleading 538 Headline on the Effect of Evenwel on Congressional Reapportionment
538 has a post, The Supreme Court Could Give The GOP Another 8 Seats In Congress, by the very smart David Wassernman and Harry Enten, but its headline is quite misleading.
As I’ve explained at Slate, at stake in… Continue reading
Derek Muller with the Conservative Case Against Evenwel
Must-read:
It might be that population-based redistricting in Texas, and for that matter in most states, is unwise for this reason. The argument that these practices are quite administrable and wholly consistent with decades of practice, while true, may… Continue reading