“Redistricting battle in Michigan could threaten California citizens’ commission”
The SF Chronicle reports.
Category Archives: redistricting
“The Predominance Test: A Judicially Manageable Compactness Standard for Redistricting”
Michael McDonald has written this article for the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the abstract:
Scholars have proposed more than one hundred measures of district compactness to analyze legislative maps, but each of these measures lacks a critical threshold… Continue reading
North Carolina Governor and Attorney General File Amicus Briefs Supporting Plaintiffs in State Partisan Gerrymandering Case
The Democratic governor and AG versus the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly.
Former North Carolina Governors File Amicus Brief Supporting Plaintiffs in State Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Read it here (via Melissa Boughton).
“Republicans Say the First Amendment Protects the Right to Gerrymander”
Leah Litman for Slate.
“Republicans sue to block Michigan redistricting commission”
Detroit News:
Republicans are suing to stop Michigan’s new citizen redistricting commission before it begins, alleging the voter-approved amendment is “blatantly unconstitutional” and discriminates against participants based on political service or family ties.The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning with the… Continue reading
“GOP could dodge Gov. Evers to gerrymander Wisconsin again”
Wisconsin Examiner:
Now Democrats and fair-maps advocates are worried that Republicans might make an end-run around Evers by means of a joint resolution, passing a new map through the Assembly and Senate. Because joint resolutions do not require the… Continue reading
“Redrawing Maps the Right Way”
Frank Strigari, general counsel for the Ohio Senate, and Jeff Wice, an attorney for the New York Assembly have written Redrawing Maps the Right Way. It’s in NCSL’s magazine, State Legislature. A rare bipartisan piece.
“Women, nonwhites wanted: California redistricting panel struggles for diversity”
The SF Chronicle reports.
Breaking: In Major Decision, 3-Judge Federal District Court Unanimously Rejects Motion to Put Texas Back Under Federal Supervision over Voting, Despite Continuing Concerns About Texas’s Intentional Racial Discrimination
A three-judge federal district court, which earlier had found that Texas engaged in intentional racial discrimination against African-Americans and Latinos in passing its 2011 redistricting plan has refused to put Texas back under federal supervision for voting.
Before the Supreme… Continue reading
Hofeller files come into court in North Carolina state gerrymandering case
Courthouse
News Service reviews the end of week one of trial.
“The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting”
Mekela Panditharatne talks prison
gerrymandering in Slate.
“America’s Historic Fight Over Who Deserves Representation”
Michael Li, in
Slate, on the census, citizenship, and representation.
Related: the Council on
Foreign Relations gets in on the discussion too.
The long arm of Gill
Mississippi
cites Gill v. Whitford in contesting
challengers’ standing to contest the requirement that statewide
candidates win both a majority of the state and a majority of state house
districts.
And the Court’s refusal to recognize that redistricting
problems are … Continue reading