Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: There are sure to be more revelations from the Hofeller files to come, driving home the downside of using a single consultant to mastermind redistricting across multiple states and decades.For years, Hofeller held an office… Continue reading

Release: Today, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law ensuring that people in state prisons will be counted as residents of their home addresses when new legislative districts are drawn, making Washington the fifth state to… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:  A panel of federal judges late Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s order that  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos sit for a deposition in Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case. In their brief order, the judges wrote that they were suspending… Continue reading

Detroit News: A House appropriations bill would allow the state’s Republican-led Legislature to hold the purse strings for the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission approved by voters in November.The spending bill also would chip away at Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel’s… Continue reading

New CAP report from Alex Tausanovitch: Introduction and summaryFrom 2012 to 2016, the people of Michigan cast more than 50 percent of their ballots for Democratic Party legislative candidates. They voted for Democrats 52 percent of the time for… Continue reading

Gongwer: Michigan Republicans have asked the three-judge panel that ruled last week the Legislature must redraw maps for Michigan’s 14 U.S. House seats, the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House for an emergency stay of the ruling.The motion for… Continue reading