Michael Li: In one-line orders today (here and here), the Supreme Court rejected a request by plaintiffs in the Texas redistricting case that the Supreme Court expedite appeals by the State of Texas. The plaintiffs’ requests would have… Continue reading

Nick Stephanopoulos for Slate: The underlying debate in Whitford, then, has a clear winner and a clear implication. Far from being tangential, party is currently the most important driver of voter and legislator behavior. This fact causes today’s gerrymandering to… Continue reading

Bob Barnes deep dive on how the Wisconsin gerrrymander came to be.

Palma Joy Strand, who worked with Justice White as a clerk on Davis v. Bandemer, has written this piece for Slate.

Read it here.

Lyle: The Maryland case has some of its own vulnerabilities, and those might have played some role in the Supreme Court’s decision to sidetrack it for the time being.  The Benisek case has yet to go to a trial, reaching… Continue reading

Kimberly Robinson with the order. I linked to the jurisdictional statement here. I expect this means that the Maryland case, like the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case, will be held for resolution of Gill v. Whitford, and then sent back… Continue reading

Jurisdictional statement in Benisek v. Lamone: This case is a First Amendment challenge to the partisan gerrymander of a single federal congressional district. Plaintiffs allege that state officials responsible for Maryland’s 2011 congressional redistricting plan targeted them for vote dilution… Continue reading

News and Observer: Two of the three North Carolina lawmakers who had joined with prominent national politicians to oppose gerrymandering have now backtracked, saying they didn’t mean to add their names on an anti-gerrymandering letter sent to the Supreme Court.… Continue reading