“U.S. Is Suing in Texas Cases Over Voting by Minorities”
Charlie Savage reports for the NYT.
Category Archives: redistricting
A Few Quick Thoughts on DOJ’s Suit Against Texas on Voter ID and Moves on Redistricting
As I explained in this National Law Journal piece from a few weeks ago, AG Holder is trying whatever he can to make up for the loss of the preclearance provisions of Section 5.
But thanks to the Supreme Court’s… Continue reading
“Can You Solve Slate’s Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle?”
Enjoy!
Great election law teaching tool.
VRA Preclearance (A Response to Pildes/Tokaji, pt. 2)
(At Rick Hasen’s request, I’ve posted (with permission) two listserv responses to this post by Rick Pildes and Dan Tokaji. The first was from Mike Pitts. For this one, you can blame me. The version below is modified a… Continue reading
VRA Preclearance (A Response to Pildes/Tokaji, pt. 1)
(Re-posted on behalf of Mike Pitts, from a listserv email, with permission, in response to this post):
I have great respect for Dan Tokaji and Rick Pildes. They are smart folks and excellent scholars. And they may well… Continue reading
Bail-in: local, non-southern edition
Justin here.
In the wake of Shelby County, attention will naturally follow cases seeking bail-in for jurisdictions once covered by sections 4 and 5. Like Texas, where there’s the opposite of the “New York, New York” scenario: if… Continue reading
“2020 Redistricting? The Arizona GOP Is ON IT”
“Texas primaries could be delayed again over redistricting”
“Texas: We Only Hate Democrats, Not Minorities”
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View: “So, here’s the question the federal courts must decide: When the white party uses its legislative authority to undermine the brown and black party, is that a racial act or merely a political one?”
“Congressional District Compactness, Gerrymandering By State”
Lisa Manheim on “Redistricting Litigation and the Delegation of Democratic Design”
Lisa Manheim of University of Washington has posted this article on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
The power to redraw electoral lines is the power to design elections. Enormous significance therefore attaches to any delegation of redistricting authority. Yet in every… Continue reading
“Arguing about section 3 in the Texas redistricting case”
Important post at Texas Redistricting.
“Time to get the foxes (Illinois politicians) out of the henhouse (legislative redistricting)”
Nick Stephanopoulos has written this oped for the Chicago Tribune.
“Judicial panel strikes down Indianapolis City-County Council redistricting plan”
IndyStar:
A Marion Superior Court judicial panel has struck down a redistricting ordinance drawn up by City-County Council Republicans in late 2011 and signed into law by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard just as Democrats took majority control of the… Continue reading