Category Archives: redistricting
“A Supreme Court Case Could Make Partisan Gerrymandering Illegal”
David Daley for Moyers & Co.
“Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Gerrymandering Case”
Nina Totenberg for NPR on “cracking” and “packing.”
“Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court’s big gerrymandering case”
Barry Burden for The Monkey Cage.
“How partisan is too partisan? Wrong question.”
“From gerrymandering to voter purging – the critical issues facing the supreme court”
“How a Wisconsin Case Before Justices Could Reshape Redistricting”
Michael Wines reports for the NYT.
“History frowns on partisan gerrymandering”
Cliff Sloan and Michael Waldman have this WaPo oped.
“Gerrymandering the Constitution: More than statehouse politics at risk”
Carolyn Shapiro for The Hill with an important point I have not seen made elsewhere:
Those of us who live outside Wisconsin (or Virginia, North Carolina, or Maryland) should not assume these issues do not affect us. We all have… Continue reading
“Can the Supreme Court Fix American Politics?”
NYT editorial on Gil v Whitford.
“Courting Kennedy”
“To Limit Gerrymandering, Supreme Court Needs Just to Reaffirm Equal Population Requirement”
“Litigating the Line Between Past and Present; The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.”
Sara Mayeux for Bunk History:
How past is the past? That quandary, among the definitional puzzles of the human condition, is also the crux of the voting rights battles currently rending statehouses and federal courts around the country. Election law… Continue reading
Ned Foley on Why Oral Argument Might Matter in WI Partisan Gerrymandering Case, and Some Questions
Ned:
It is often said that oral arguments rarely make a difference to the outcome of a Supreme Court case, that the Justices’ minds are essentially made up before oral argument begins.
But Gill v. Whitford, the blockbuster partisan gerrymandering… Continue reading