Category Archives: redistricting
“The Supreme Court Just Took A Case That Could Make Partisan Gerrymandering Even Worse”
Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Redistricting Case and Florida Case on Judicial Campaign Speech: Analysis
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”
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”
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”
Prison Gerrymandering Case in Rhode Island Survives Motion to Dismiss
Press release (Prisoners of the Census).
Order.
“Gerrymandering and the Big Sort Fallacy”
Weigel responds to Nate Cohn.
Supreme Court to Hear Alabama Redistricting Cases Nov. 12
“In state Capitol, intransigence gives way to bipartisan deal-making”
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
“Forget 2016. Democrats already have a plan for 2020”
Benjy Sarlin for MSNBC on redistricting.
“Democrats prep 2020 redistricting plans”
More on Florida Congressional Redistricting Decision
NYT, Bloomberg, and Politico report on yesterday’s decision allowing the 2012 map to be used this year and upholding the new map drawn earlier this month. The Orlando Sentinel has reactions from candidates.
Breaking: “Judge OKs New Florida Congressional Map for 2016”
Roll Call reports:
A state judge upheld the Florida legislature’s newly revised congressional map Friday, ruling the redrawn House districts should apply to the 2016 elections.
“The 2014 elections will have to be held under the map as enacted… Continue reading