“Constitutional Connections: Race, partisan gerrymandering and the Constitution”
John Greabe writes on Cooper v. Harris for the Concord Monitor.
Category Archives: redistricting
“SCOTUS’s Last Chance to Rein in Partisan Gerrymandering?”
Kimberly Robinson for Bloomberg BNA:
The U.S. Supreme Court could radically change how states draw their districts for federal and state elections as Republicans and Democrats are preparing to battle over the next redistricting cycle.
More than 30 years ago,… Continue reading
“Supreme Court’s next step on gerrymandering could be its biggest yet”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
“Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed”
NY Times:
In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a federal appeals court said had… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Ohio Motor-Voter Case; Remands NC Redistricting Case
(Apologies for the delay, as ELB was down this morning.)
After being relisted only once, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Husted v. A.Philip Randolph Institute from the Sixth Circuit. The question presented is: “Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507… Continue reading
What are all these NC redistricting cases?
There are a bunch of North Carolina redistricting cases stacked up at the moment. A few of these are in front of the Supreme Court, and could move as early as Tuesday. Since we just had a North Carolina redistricting… Continue reading
“The Shifting Ground of Redistricting Law”
Very important Chris Elmendorf post at Balkinization, with a more negative view of Cooper v. Harris:
How then is a state to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which, as noted above, has long required states to… Continue reading
“Cooper v. Harris: Proxy Battles & Partisan War”
Mike Parsons on yesterday’s Supreme Court racial gerrymandering decision.
“The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool”
I have written this oped for the Washington Post. It begins:
Sometimes the most important stuff in Supreme Court opinions is hidden in the footnotes. In Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down two North Carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced… Continue reading
Another Explanation for Justice Thomas’s Joining of Racial Gerrymandering Majority Opinion
I’ve already opined on what might have motivated Justice Thomas (and Justice Kennedy) so side how they did today.
An ELB reader passes along these additional thoughts about Justice Thomas and what comes next:
I’ve always been struck by Justice… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Upholds Rejection Of North Carolina Congressional Districts”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.
We May Soon Get a Hint on What the Supreme Court Thinks of Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, comes this stay application in the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case (Gill v. Whitford). The state wants the Supreme Court to put on hold a requirement that Wisconsin state legislative districts by November 1.
The Supreme… Continue reading
Partisan Gerrymandering Case Status
The Court’s decision this morning in the North Carolina redistricting case addressed allegations of predominant and unjustified racial intent. The state attempted to defend its actions, in part, by saying that it was just acting for partisan reasons.
The legal… Continue reading
Justice Kagan Gained Justice Thomas in NC Racial Gerrymandering Case; How Did She Lose Justice Kennedy?
I’ve noted how interesting and mysterious it is that Justice Thomas signed onto Justice Kagan’s opinion in today’s racial gerrymandering case. Given Justice Thomas’s views on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and his view of the clearly erroneous… Continue reading