Cleveland.com: The backlash within Ohio’s political left was swift after a major voting-rights group announced this week it had dropped its attempt to block a new Republican-drawn congressional map from taking effect in 2022.The ACLU of Ohio, representing a… Continue reading

Complaint is here. Press release here. The Justice Department has initiated a handful of Section 2 challenges this redistricting cycle. It’s worth noting that unlike the Alabama litigation, as Rick P. blogged about here, this does… Continue reading

Ohio Capital Journal: The debate over a court’s role in changing the primary date continues in responses submitted to the Ohio Supreme Court.Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker Bob Cupp flatly rejected the idea of a primary date… Continue reading

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The Court’s per curiam opinion in Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission is here. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Kagan, dissented. (More coverage to come later today.) The bottom line: We agree that the court committed legal error in… Continue reading

NPR: Voters in Ohio are supposed to be able to vote in the state’s May 3 primary – up and down the ballot – but with just six weeks to go, the voting districts for the state legislature haven’t… Continue reading

Some fascinating responses in this Morning Consult survey about public awareness and perception about redistricting and thoughts on redistricting rationales.

AP: The surprising advantage Democrats gained during the torturous process of rewriting the nation’s congressional maps may be short-lived, creating the potential for more frequent clashes over how political power should be distributed across the United States.As the once-a-decade… Continue reading

WMUR: Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday he will veto the congressional redistricting map approved by his fellow Republicans in the New Hampshire Legislature.The map has been hotly debated for months. In the once-a-decade redistricting process, New Hampshire House Republicans… Continue reading

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Cleveland.com: The Ohio Supreme Court, for a third time, has rejected Republicans’ state legislative maps, a move that state legislative leaders have said likely will result in a delay for at least part of the May primary.In … Continue reading