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Category Archives: redistricting
“It’s Not Just the White House in 2020. The Power to Draw Maps Is Also at Stake.”
Rebecca Green: A Spade is a Spade (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Rebecca Green, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
The Rucho
decision is hard to get your head around. Plaintiffs presented two clean cases with
clear “smoking guns”: partisan… Continue reading
Moon Duchin: How to Reason from the Universe of Maps (The Normative Logic of Map Sampling) (Rucho symposium)
The following is a guest post from Moon Duchin, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Justice Kagan’s dissent in Rucho states in its
opening paragraphs: “The majority’s
abdication comes just when courts across the country,… Continue reading
Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer: Rucho: Democracy and Banality (Rucho symposium)
The following is a guest post from Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
One would be hard-pressed to find
a more hackneyed Supreme Court opinion than Chief Justice Roberts’s majority… Continue reading
Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Michael Morley, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
The
Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v.
Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American
voters. Justice Kagan’s… Continue reading
Mike Parsons: Rucho’s Antidemocratic Instinct: “This is not law.” (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Mike Parsons, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
In
holding that partisan gerrymandering claims are not “resolvable according to legal
principles” and are “therefore beyond [federal] courts’ jurisdiction,”… Continue reading
Justin Levitt: The Soft Bigotry of Low Legislative Expectations (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Justin Levitt, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Last Thursday’s Rucho majority
opinion brought many indignities. The shadowboxing
with strawmen, in the form of proportionality claims no litigant… Continue reading
“Clock is Ticking to Fix Prison Gerrymandering”
Daniel Nichanian for The Appeal.
Rick Pildes: What Do Voters Think Independent Redistricting Commissions Should Do? (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Rick Pildes, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Now that the Supreme Court’s decision means that limits on partisan gerrymandering will have to come from venues such as… Continue reading
Keith Gaddie: After Rucho: Fifty Thickets (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Keith Gaddie, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
Felix Frankfurter called redistricting a “political thicket” which the federal courts would do well to avoid. And, when the court did… Continue reading
Tam Cho: For Partisan Gerrymandering, an Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Wendy Tam Cho, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
We have
been focused for some time on the Supreme Court’s role in regulating partisan
gerrymandering. Now that we… Continue reading
All’s Well That Ends Well, or All’s Well That Evenwel? How the Commerce Department May Still Help States to Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Voter Eligible Persons to Minimize Hispanic (and Democratic) Voting Strength
It is undeniably good news that the Trump Administration decided to abandon the citizenship question in the face of evidence that it would depress turnout especially among those with noncitizens in a household and in light of the Supreme… Continue reading
Sam Issacharoff: When Constraint Fails (Rucho Symposium)
The following is a guest post from Sam Issacharoff, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho:
The
33-year search for judicial standards in partisan gerrymandering cases came to
a crashing conclusion this Term. As
Justice Kagan… Continue reading