Category Archives: redistricting

Ghost of Tom Hofeller: Republican Legislator Keeps Leaving North Carolina Legislative Meeting for Secret Consultations in Redrawing the State’s Congressional Districts Under Threat of Court Order

November 7, 2019, 1:00 pmchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

Daniel Jacobson: https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1192515607427723265

As Democrats Take Unified Control of Virginia State Government, Will They Kill Redistricting Reform?

November 5, 2019, 7:40 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Michael Li: So far Ds have won the Virginia state senate & (for now) appear to have a good chance of winning the state house as well – thanks to a redrawing of the map. That’ll give them a trifecta… Continue reading

“NC’s congressional district redraw starts Tuesday”

November 4, 2019, 2:42 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

WRAL: The nuts and bolts of yet another North Carolina redistricting will start getting laid out Tuesday when legislative leaders huddle on the state’s court-challenged congressional maps.House and Senate leadership announced the committee late Monday, appointing the usual suspects to… Continue reading

NC Republicans Could Have Drawn an 11th or 12th Republican Congressional District, Producing an All-White Congressional Delegation

October 30, 2019, 1:00 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

David Daley: “I PROPOSE THAT we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats,” said North Carolina Rep. David Lewis, in 2016 in a legislative committee hearing, “because I do not believe it’s possible… Continue reading

3-Judge North Carolina State Court Blocks Use of NC Congressional Districts as Likely Partisan Gerrymanders; Approves New Legislative Maps for State District Elections: What It Means and What Is Next?

October 28, 2019, 5:10 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Today a three-judge considering partisan gerrymanders under the North Carolina state constitution issued two orders. In one order, the court approved the North Carolina General Assembly’s maps for state legislative district lines passed after the court had earlier found a… Continue reading

“You Can Now Hear Elena Kagan Read Her Searing Dissent in the Partisan Gerrymandering Case”

October 25, 2019, 5:15 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Slate: “For the first time ever,” Justice Elena Kagan declared on June 27, “this court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.”Kagan was reading a summary of her dissent in Rucho v. Common … Continue reading

North Carolina: “Judges weighing initial arguments to strike down 2016 congressional map ahead of 2020 election”

October 24, 2019, 10:28 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Melissa Boughton reports.

“An overlooked consequence of the Supreme Court’s gerrymandering rulings: Stricter abortion laws”

October 22, 2019, 10:32 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Interesting WaPo report.

NC: “Latest redistricting process led to much fairer maps, analysis shows”

October 22, 2019, 1:03 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

WRAL: The General Assembly’s mad scramble last month to redraw nearly half of the state’s House and Senate districts under a tight court deadline appears to have produced something new for North Carolina – fair maps.That’s according to a new… Continue reading

“Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Michigan partisan gerrymander”

October 21, 2019, 8:12 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Pete Williams: The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan.The decision, which allows the GOP districts to stand, was expected because the court declared in… Continue reading

“Citizenship Data Will Make Partisan Gerrymandering Much, Much Worse”

October 21, 2019, 6:45 amredistrictingRick Hasen

New report from Common Cause.

Charles and Fuentes-Rohwer: “Dirty Thinking About Law and Democracy in Rucho v. Common Cause”

October 7, 2019, 9:50 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The New Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer piece in the ACS Supreme Court Review pulls no punches.: Rucho is not an easy case to take seriously as doctrine. Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion is more redolent of a debater’s brief than… Continue reading

Same Three-Judge State Court in North Carolina That Found State Legislative Districts to Be Partisan Gerrymanders Assigned to Handle Case Over North Carolina Congressional Districts

October 3, 2019, 8:49 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Big development: JUST IN: The same three-judge panel that presided over Common Cause v. Lewis (partisan gerrymandering case over 2017 #ncga maps) has been appointed to hear the g/m case over the congressional maps #ncpol— Melissa Boughton (@mel_bough)… Continue reading

“How to Get Away With Gerrymandering”

October 2, 2019, 10:24 amredistrictingRick Hasen

David Daley: Luxury cabanas atop Austin’s JW Marriott kept state legislators cool poolside as August-in-Texas temperatures soared above 103 degrees during each day of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2019 annual meeting. The gathered Republican officials could enjoy a $14… Continue reading

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