WI Partisan Gerrymandering Plaintiffs File #SCOTUS Motion to Affirm
With Paul Smith (now of the Campaign Legal Center) as Counsel of Record.
Category Archives: redistricting
“Can math stop partisan gerrymandering?”
Sam Wang and Brian Remlinger LAT oped:
Setting aside the Monte Carlo analysis, the most straightforward way to determine if gerrymandering has gone too far is to ask whether one side’s wins were exceptionally lopsided compared with the other. In… Continue reading
What To Look for When the Supreme Court Decides the North Carolina Redistricting Case
The Court has already decided one major racial redistricting case this Term, Bethune-Hill, from Virginia. The other major racial redistricting case, Cooper v. Harris, from North Carolina, is now one of three cases outstanding the longest since argument. Cooper involves… Continue reading
Expedited Texas Redistricting Trial on Remaining Voting Rights Claims July 10 Before Three Judge Court
This extremely long running case will be coming to a conclusion with a 5 day trial on July 10, followed by an inevitable appeal directly to the Supreme court.
“Ahead of 2018, trial likely looms in Texas political map battle”
Texas Tribune:
As the 2018 election cycle nears, it appears Texas and its legal foes are headed for a trial — yet again — over what the state’s House and congressional boundaries will look like, and it will likely come… Continue reading
“Recent rulings that Texas’ voting laws discriminate put pressure on the state, but the road ahead is long”
“Redistricting by Formula: An Ohio Reform Experiment”
Micah Altman and Michael McDonald in American Politics Research:
In the last decade, Ohio reformers advocated redistricting by formula: selecting the redistricting plan that scores best on a predefined objective scoring function that combines prima facie neutral criteria with political… Continue reading
Judicial Watch, Which Backs Maryland Partisan Gerrymandering Claim, Objects to “Efficiency Gap” in WI Redistricting Litigation
Paul Clement Brief on WI Redistricting Calls Court Policing of Gerrymandering “Dangerously Wrong”
AP:
Attorneys for the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to uphold GOP-drawn legislative boundaries, saying a ruling that found them to be unconstitutional was “dangerously” wrong.
The filing comes in support of separate and similar… Continue reading
“Lawsuit: 2015 Redistricting Violated Black Voters’ Rights”
AP:
Georgia lawmakers violated federal voting rights law by moving black voters out and white voters in to two state House districts in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that calls the mid-decade redistricting an effort to protect white… Continue reading
“Court: Texas House map intentionally diluted minority votes”
“‘Pivotal Moment’ for Democrats? Gerrymandering Heads to Supreme Court”
Michael Wines on the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case heading to SCOTUS.
Breaking: Divided District Court Finds Texas Engaged in Intentional Race Discrimination in Drawing TX House Districts
The same three-judge court that recently held that Texas’s congressional redistricting violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act in drawing some districts has now issued this new decision and these findings of fact in relation to the challenge… Continue reading
Nick Stephanopoulos and Ruth Greenwood’s Gerrymandering Wedding Cake Also on John Oliver Segment
Watch around the 14 minute mark (NSFW).