Category Archives: redistricting
“Justices to Hear Alabama Redistricting Case”
Mary Troyan writes for Gannett.
Three-Judge Court Rejects One Person, One Vote Challenge to Texas Redistricting Plan
Plaintiffs alleged that the legislature needed to use equal voter populations and not just equal total populations in each district. The three-judge court held that the total population measure is not constitutionally required.
This case was brought by Ed Blum’s … Continue reading
“Republicans Only Got 52 Percent of the Vote in House Races; How did they end up with 57 percent of the seats?”
Rob Richie for The Nation.
“Mueller: We must end political gerrymandering”
Nicholas Mueller has written this Times Dispatch oped.
“In Alabama, race again at heart of voting rights debate — but with twist”
Bob Barnes preview of the Alabama SCOTUS redistricting case.
My preview of the case for SCOTUSBlog is here.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Zero Deviation”
A. J. Pate, who has been involved in redistricting efforts for decades, has written this guest post on the question whether zero deviation in population for congressional districts is constitutionally compelled:
Zero deviation and divided census tracts are the identifying… Continue reading
ACS Briefing on Alabama Redistricting Cases
November 10 (two days before argument). Details and RSVP.
Read the Post-Trial Briefs in the Texas Redistricting Cases
Here.
SCOTUS Adds Argument Time in Alabama Redistricting Case for Federal Government
See this Order. As I explained in my SCOTUSBlog preview posted yesterday, Argument preview: Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting Rights Act, the government filed a brief supporting neither side in this case:
Beneath… Continue reading
“Florida Redistricting Case Heads to State Supreme Court”
The AP Bulks Up in a Big Way on Redistricting
With four different stories.
Juliet Williams describes the structure of redistricting in the states that take the process out of the hands of the legislature – an issue up at the Supreme Court this year, in a case out of… Continue reading
“The Undemocratic Flaw In This State”
A college junior weighs in on redistricting in Maryland, with more sophistication than I see from an awful lot of more experienced analysts.
Not All Democrats Love Maryland’s Maps
Disgruntled legislators protest the dilution of minority populations.