Category Archives: redistricting
Common Cause “Gerrymander Standard” Winners Will Be Announced Next Week
Last year Common Cause launched the inaugural Democracy Prize Writing Competition to identify the best “gerrymander standard.” We had the honor of serving as co-chairs of the judging panel. Our goal was to encourage fresh thinking about a standard … Continue reading
Misleading 538 Headline on the Effect of Evenwel on Congressional Reapportionment
538 has a post, The Supreme Court Could Give The GOP Another 8 Seats In Congress, by the very smart David Wassernman and Harry Enten, but its headline is quite misleading.
As I’ve explained at Slate, at stake in… Continue reading
Derek Muller with the Conservative Case Against Evenwel
Must-read:
It might be that population-based redistricting in Texas, and for that matter in most states, is unwise for this reason. The argument that these practices are quite administrable and wholly consistent with decades of practice, while true, may… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Could Implode Heavily Latino Legislative Districts”
Jon Fleischman:
Clearly this case presents a conflict for conservatives, who would otherwise welcome the political ramifications of changes in districts, because such a ruling, if it came down, would represent a severe legal assault on the notion of… Continue reading
“Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama – Post-Decision SCOTUScast”
Stephen Davis on a Federalist Society podcast.
“The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Hawaii Military Carve Out May Play Role in Voting District Case”
“The ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case Relies On Statistics That Nobody Has”
No, The Evenwel Case Does Not Put the Apportionment of Congressional Districts to the States in Play
Richard Winger helpfully points out some confusion about the effects of Evenwel on reapportionment. So let’s make this clear.
1. At issue in Evenwel, is whether drawing district for state legislatures and other state purposes must be done on total… Continue reading
Chief Justice, While Government Lawyer, Defended One Person, One Vote Total Population Rule
Great find by Marty Lederman, who praises the Chief’s analysis.
Watch these arguments, and perhaps even this brief, be cited in the Evenwel briefing.
“One Person One Vote Goes to the Supreme Court”
Great interview with Nate Persily by Madeiline Brand.
“‘One Man, One Vote’ Keeps Changing”
Noah Feldman for Bloomberg View.
Why the Court Should Leave the Choice of One Person One Vote Rules to the States
In my Slate piece on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Evenwel, which I wanted to title “Unsettling Precedents,” I argue that whether to use total population or total voters (or perhaps some other denominator) in redistricting to comply with… Continue reading