Category Archives: redistricting

4th Cir. Finds One Person, One Vote Violation in Wake County, NC

July 1, 2016, 8:06 amredistrictingDan Tokaji

The opinion in Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Wake Co. Board of Elections is here. The court applies the standard from Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission for deviations under 10%, finding it “more probable than not that the… Continue reading

Wice on 2020 Census Residence Criteria

June 30, 2016, 7:56 amredistrictingDan Tokaji

Jeff Wice writes at New York Election News: Of major importance is a change to the way prison population are reported. After the 2010 census, New York, Maryland and Delaware enacted laws to reassign prisoner populations to “homes of… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Redistricting Lawsuit Could Reverberate Nationally”

June 28, 2016, 7:25 pmredistrictingDan Tokaji

American Prospect on Whitford v. Nichol.

Coverage of NC Gerrymandering Case

June 28, 2016, 7:51 amredistrictingDan Tokaji

On yesterday’s noting of probable jurisdiction in McCrory v. Harris: Charlotte Observer The Hill Politico Roll Call U.S. News

Wang’s Partisan Gerrymandering Calculator

June 26, 2016, 7:44 pmredistrictingDan Tokaji

Check it out: Sam Wang has created this site (currently in beta) with online calculators for the statistical tests described in his recent article in Stanford Law Review.

“Drawing the Line: How redistricting turned America from blue to red.”

June 23, 2016, 12:43 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Elizabeth Kolbert reviews Ratf**ked in the New Yorker.

“Common Cause Announces Winners of National Contest to End Gerrymandering”

June 20, 2016, 12:53 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Release: Three academics with fresh ideas to identify and analyze how politicians draw legislative boundaries for political advantage have been declared the winners of Common Cause’s second annual Gerrymander Standard Writing Competition. 1st Place: Wendy Tam Cho and … Continue reading

“NCSL/SLLC Supreme Court Redistricting Cases Webinar”

June 9, 2016, 1:09 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Announcement: It is a banner year in the Supreme Court for redistricting cases! Aside from Evenwel v. Abbott, holding that states may redraw legislative districts based on total population, the Court decided three other redistricting cases that will be important… Continue reading

“Supreme Court takes case claiming racial gerrymandering in Virginia”

June 6, 2016, 9:50 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein reports for Politico.

#SCOTUS Will Hear Another Racial Gerrymandering Case

June 6, 2016, 6:39 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Supreme Court this morning noted probable jurisdiction in the Bethune-Hill case, raising racial gerrymandering claims in state legislative elections in Va. The SCOTUSBlog page is here. Just a few weeks ago, the Court dismissed on standing grounds a… Continue reading

Federal Court Rejects Partisan Gerrymander Objection to NC Congressional Redistricting Plan

June 3, 2016, 11:58 amredistrictingRick Hasen

A few months ago, a three judge court held that North Carolina’s congressional redistricting included an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. This case is currently on appeal to the Supreme Court. To remedy the violation, the NC legislature came up with a… Continue reading

“Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and North Carolina’s Use of Racial Black Political Power”

June 1, 2016, 2:55 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Michael Curtis has posted this draft on SSRN (Wake Forest Law Review). Here is the abstract: This Article focuses on new developments in the ongoing saga of North Carolina’s 2011 state legislative and congressional reapportionment and gerrymander. The earlier article… Continue reading

“The Revival of the Three-Fifths Clause in a Rhode Island Prison Gerrymandering Case”

May 24, 2016, 1:33 pmfelon voting, redistrictingRick Hasen

Derek the Muller: A federal district court handed down a memorandum and order for summary judgment in Davidson v. City of Cranston, a case concerning “prison gerrymandering” in Rhode Island. The court concluded that the city improperly drew districts… Continue reading

“Wisconsin’s state legislative districts are a big Republican gerrymander”

May 24, 2016, 9:19 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Following up on this post linking to their SSRN paper, Jon Krasno, Daniel Magleby, Michael D. McDonald, Shawn Donahue and Robin Best have written this piece for the Monkey Cage.