Category Archives: redistricting
The Virginia redistricting decision
Rick mentioned the Virginia congressional redistricting decision earlier today.
I’ve already seen some confusion about this: the decision doesn’t depend on Shelby County. Indeed, as I read it, the decision would have been exactly the the same if Shelby County… Continue reading
Breaking: Federal Court Strikes Va. Congressional Redistricting Map
In a 2-1 vote, a three judge federal court has rejected part of Virginia’s congressional redistricting as unconstitutional. The majority ruled that the redistricting involving a majority-minority district violated the equal protection clause as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander (a Shaw… Continue reading
“Judicial Redistricting and the Article I State Legislature”
This Saul Zipkin piece from 2003 could be useful in thinking about the Arizona redistricting case the Supreme Court has agreed to take. Here is the abstract:
Article I of the Constitution commits primary responsibility for the setting of time,… Continue reading
“U.S. high court could toss out Ariz. voting boundaries”
“Fate of non-partisan redistricting on the line”
“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.