Category Archives: redistricting
Mississippi: “Black Democrat Wins in Redrawn District After Racial Gerrymander Case”
Jackson Free Press:
Even as Republicans swept statewide offices in Mississippi on Tuesday night, Joseph Thomas, an African American Democrat in a district that stretches across six counties, narrowly flipped a GOP-held Senate seat. Earlier this year, a federal court… Continue reading
Ghost of Tom Hofeller: Republican Legislator Keeps Leaving North Carolina Legislative Meeting for Secret Consultations in Redrawing the State’s Congressional Districts Under Threat of Court Order
Daniel Jacobson:
https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1192515607427723265
As Democrats Take Unified Control of Virginia State Government, Will They Kill Redistricting Reform?
Michael Li:
So far Ds have won the Virginia state senate & (for now) appear to have a good chance of winning the state house as well – thanks to a redrawing of the map. That’ll give them a trifecta… Continue reading
“NC’s congressional district redraw starts Tuesday”
WRAL:
The nuts and bolts of yet another North Carolina redistricting will start getting laid out Tuesday when legislative leaders huddle on the state’s court-challenged congressional maps.House and Senate leadership announced the committee late Monday, appointing the usual suspects to… Continue reading
NC Republicans Could Have Drawn an 11th or 12th Republican Congressional District, Producing an All-White Congressional Delegation
David Daley:
“I PROPOSE THAT we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats,” said North Carolina Rep. David Lewis, in 2016 in a legislative committee hearing, “because I do not believe it’s possible… Continue reading
3-Judge North Carolina State Court Blocks Use of NC Congressional Districts as Likely Partisan Gerrymanders; Approves New Legislative Maps for State District Elections: What It Means and What Is Next?
Today a three-judge considering partisan gerrymanders under the North Carolina state constitution issued two orders. In one order, the court approved the North Carolina General Assembly’s maps for state legislative district lines passed after the court had earlier found a… Continue reading
“You Can Now Hear Elena Kagan Read Her Searing Dissent in the Partisan Gerrymandering Case”
Slate:
“For the first time ever,” Justice Elena Kagan declared on June 27, “this court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.”Kagan was reading a summary of her dissent in Rucho v. Common … Continue reading
North Carolina: “Judges weighing initial arguments to strike down 2016 congressional map ahead of 2020 election”
“An overlooked consequence of the Supreme Court’s gerrymandering rulings: Stricter abortion laws”
Interesting WaPo report.
NC: “Latest redistricting process led to much fairer maps, analysis shows”
WRAL:
The General Assembly’s mad scramble last month to redraw nearly half of the state’s House and Senate districts under a tight court deadline appears to have produced something new for North Carolina – fair maps.That’s according to a new… Continue reading
“Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Michigan partisan gerrymander”
Pete Williams:
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan.The decision, which allows the GOP districts to stand, was expected because the court declared in… Continue reading
“Citizenship Data Will Make Partisan Gerrymandering Much, Much Worse”
New report from Common Cause.
Charles and Fuentes-Rohwer: “Dirty Thinking About Law and Democracy in Rucho v. Common Cause”
The New Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer piece in the ACS Supreme Court Review pulls no punches.:
Rucho is not an easy case to take seriously as doctrine. Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion is more redolent of a debater’s brief than… Continue reading