It’s a day full of would-be reminders for Democrats, for some reason.  Jeff Greenfield points out that Democrats have lost races for reasons other than gerrymandering.  I’m not sure anyone disagrees.

This is yet another article attempting to explain Gill away by saying that the cause of the gerrymandering problem is natural concentration of Democrats in urban areas. The challenge in Gill, of course, is limited to those plans in which… Continue reading

Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case had, by far, most amicus briefs of any SCOTUS case since 2013. https://t.co/VyJCBUVGqL #fairmaps pic.twitter.com/Bi7Eys9XvD — Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) October 7, 2017

A post from Jordan Ellenberg, in the weekend NYT. FWIW, I’m hardly a Luddite, but I’m a little skeptical of the gerrymandering-and-technology story, at least in its strongest form.  It is unquestionably true that technology has democratized both gerrymandering… Continue reading

Politifact says otherwise.

Mike Parsons on an exchange prompted by Justice Sotomayor. Rick Esenberg says the court should just stay out entirely. CNN talks about the cameras that weren’t inside. And Eric McGhee, who claims the much-discussed “efficiency gap” as his own, blogs … Continue reading

This op-ed about politicians actually takes off from Chief Justice Roberts’ “gobbledygook” quote in Gill.  I also had a strong reaction to the “fake folksiness.”  (It’s immune to Benadryl.)

Dave Daley in the New Yorker.