“Redistricting and Representation in the 2016 Elections and Beyond”
Liz Kennedy and Danelle Root for CAP.
Category Archives: redistricting
“Go Midwest, Young Hipster If you really want Democrats to win in Iowa, move there.”
Alec MacGillis for NYT Sunday Review:
Liberals have a simple explanation for this state of affairs: Republican-led gerrymandering, which has put Democrats at a disadvantage in the House and in many state legislatures. But this overlooks an even bigger… Continue reading
NC Racial Gerrymandering Decisions Featured in Ad Against NC Justice Edmunds
“Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign”
Politico reports.
“We Must Address Gerrymandering”
Tom Mann for TIME.
“A Crisis of Representation”
McGann, Smith, Latner, and Keena at Balkinization:
In our new book Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, The Supreme Court and the Future of Popular Sovereignty, we look at an ongoing crisis in the way the House… Continue reading
“Voting for Change: The Supreme Court’s Election Law Cases After Scalia”
I have written this article for the October issue of the OC Lawyer magazine. A snippet:
With the Supreme Court gaining unknown new personnel, in the upcoming decade we are likely to see the Court split on ideological and partisan… Continue reading
“Meet the Dems’ chief weapon against remap reform: Michael Kasper”
Crain’s Chicago Business:
The go-to election lawyer for Mike Madigan and Rahm Emanuel is mildly horrified to hear some attorneys call him “the dean” of the election bar.
The jolt comes during a rare interview with Michael Kasper, general… Continue reading
“Campaign Legal Center and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice File Lawsuit Over North Carolina’s Partisan Gerrymandered Congressional Districts”
Release:
The Campaign Legal Center and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a complaint today on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and numerous individual voters, arguing that North Carolina’s 2016 congressional redistricting plan… Continue reading
First Circuit, Relying on Evenwel, Rejects “Prison Gerrymandering” Claim
You can find the unanimous 1st Circuit opinion at this link. Here is a statement from Demos. From the opinion:
It is true that Evenwel did not decide the precise question before us. Nevertheless, we hold that its methodology … Continue reading
“Evenwel v. Abbott: Recent Developments at SCOTUS and Implications for Redistricting”
Upcoming CLE program with Jessica Ring Amunson.
Three Judge Court Dismisses Maryland Legislative Gerrymander Case on Procedural Grounds
You can find the unanimous opinion, finding that the plaintiff, representing himself was precluded from suing on a gerrymander because he brought an earlier suit before the election, here.
“A Broken Winged Pterodactyl Walks Into the Supreme Court: A Look at Next Term’s Redistricting Cases”
Nate Persily and I were interviewed for this Bloomberg BNA podcast.
“Election Reform Groups Urge Justices to Tackle Partisan Gerrymanders”
NLJ’s Marcia Coyle for the Supreme Court Brief:
The lawyers in all three cases have been in close coordination, said Mayer Brown’s Kimberly. If a decision is announced in the Wisconsin case by mid-September, he said, there will sufficient… Continue reading