“Justices Hear Black Lawmakers’ Challenge to Alabama Redistricting”
Adam Liptak reports for the NY Times.
Category Archives: redistricting
“Did Alabama Violate the Voting Rights of Black Voters with New Districts?”
Emily Bazelon discusses on NPR’s Here and Now.
Read the Transcript in the Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
“Court Weighs Role of Race in Alabama Redistricting”
Mark Sherman for AP: “The outcome could come down to whether the justices think that race was the motivating factor in the state’s 2012 redistricting or that Republicans merely tried to maximize their partisan advantage.”
“Alabama minority redistricting case seems to divide Supreme Court”
Bob Barnes for WaPo: “The Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday over and perhaps even stumped by a request that Alabama redo its state legislative redistricting plan that challengers said was drawn with too much emphasis on the race of voters.”
Derek Muller’s Take on Today’s Alabama Redistricting Case
He attended the argument and wrote up his thoughts: “Bottom line: there seemed to be more sympathy for Alabama’s position over that of the petitioners, but the Court was quite scattered at oral argument, and the opinion could be… Continue reading
“U.S. justices weigh racially charged Alabama redistricting plan”
Reuters: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared unsure how to resolve a challenge to a state legislature redistricting plan in Alabama that packed black voters into certain districts in a way that critics say diminishes their influence at… Continue reading
Interesting Ed Blum WSJ Oped on Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
In my Slate piece and SCOTUSBlog preview of the Alabama redistricting case the Supreme Court hears Wednesday morning, I described the interesting position conservative Justices are put in by this case: it is not clear to me how the conservatives… Continue reading
“Supreme Court to consider political segregation”
“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.