Howard Rounds Up News Reports on Yesterday’s SCOTUS Arguments in Racial Gerrymandering Pair
Here.
For my views on these cases generally, see my Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival, 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015).
Category Archives: redistricting
“Questions Of Race And Redistricting Return To The Supreme Court”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR on today’s racial gerrymandering cases being argued today at SCOTUS.
For my views on these cases generally, see my Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival, 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015).
“Where Unfair Voting Practices Begin”
NYT editorial on partisan gerrymandering.
“California just proved how cracking down on gerrymandering isn’t all it’s cracked up to be”
The Fix: “For the fourth time in 12 years, not a single one of the state’s 50-plus congressional districts switched parties. Just as in 2010, 2008 and 2004, every single seat returned to the party that previously controlled it.”
Gans on Next Week’s Racial Gerrymandering Cases
David Gans at Balkinization, on the cases from North Carolina and Virginia to be argued Monday.
Gerken on Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case
At Vox:
Democrats have reason to be frustrated these days. They won the presidential popular vote and the Senate popular vote, and they were just shy of winning the House popular vote. And yet they are entirely… Continue reading
“Court Orders Special Legislative Election for NC in 2017 with Redrawn Districts”
McClatchy and Reuters on yesterday’s order from the three-judge USDC in the North Carolina racial gerrymandering case, requiring state house and senate districts to be redrawn by March 15, 2017.
“Today, I’m Thankful for: Whitford v. Gill”
Michael Parsons on the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case.
“Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans”
Breaking: 3-Judge Federal Court, on 2-1 Vote Holds WI Assembly Districts Unconstitutional Partisan Gerrymander, Teeing Up Issue for #SCOTUS
In a major victory for those who believe that courts should be in the business of policing redistricting plans that give partisan advantage to one party or another, a three-judge court has ruled 2-1 that the Wisconsin assembly districts drawn… Continue reading
Debate: Gerrymandering is Destroying the Political Center
“The Year Ahead in Racial and Political Gerrymandering Law”
Extensive analysis from Michael Parsons.