“SCOTUS Unanimously Rejects Challenge to ‘One Person, One Vote'”
Pete Williams and Zack Roth report for NBC News.
Category Archives: redistricting
“‘Fully Open’ After Evenwel”
“How a Challenge to Legislative Redistricting Backfired”
Garrett Epps on Evenwel for The Atlantic.
Evenwel Roundups
“Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that states may count all residents, whether or not they are eligible to vote, in drawing election districts. The decision was a major statement on the meaning of… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Upholds ‘One Person, One’ Vote Principle”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR’s All Things Considered.
“Court upholds total population count in electoral districts”
Mark Sherman reports for AP.
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs’ Claim in Evenwel One Person, One Vote Case
A unanimous Supreme Court in Evenwel v. Abbott (with two Justices (Thomas and Alito) concurring in the judgment) has rejected the argument that states must draw district lines so as to equalize the total number of voters (as opposed to… Continue reading
“Originalism and the ‘one person, one vote’ principle”
Ilya Somin:
Prominent legal scholar Earl Maltz has an important new article arguing thatReynolds v. Sims (1965) and other Supreme Court decisions requiring state governments to follow the “one person, one vote” rule for apportioning legislative districts cannot… Continue reading
“Maryland can’t act alone to end gerrymandering”
Rob Richie and Austin Plier in WaPo:
Change certainly is needed. Maryland’s obviously manipulated congressional districts have produced results that skew in favor of Democrats. Only one of eight seats is held by a Republican, and white male Democrats… Continue reading
“Judges hear arguments in gerrymandering lawsuit, decision to come later”
Wisconsin State Journal:
A panel of three federal judges heard arguments Wednesday on a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Democrats who say that the 2011 redistricting of state legislative boundaries was an extreme and… Continue reading
“Wittman v. Personhuballah – A Standing-Only Recap”
Smart thoughts from Asher Steinberg.
“Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn but with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists”
I have posted a revised version of this paper (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) to take into account the death of Justice Scalia. Here is the revised abstract:
This Essay describes the path of election law jurisprudence in the Roberts Court… Continue reading
More on the #SCOTUS Oral Argument in Virginia Congressional Redistricting Case
I have now had a chance to review the transcript in Wittman v. Personhuballah, and I agree with other commentators that it seems very likely that the Republican intervenors is likely to fail. It appears that the four Court… Continue reading