I have written this piece for The Atlantic. It begins: The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to take up partisan gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland brought to mind a saying attributed to Judy Garland: Behind every cloud… Continue reading

Here is the Court order. On what this means, see my tweet thread yesterday. And see The Next Threat to Redistricting Reform, Harvard Law Review Blog, Oct. 22, 2018 How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting … Continue reading

USLW reports.   

Tweet thread from me, starts here: There's an excellent chance that tomorrow the Supreme Court will announce it will take up (again) the question whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Don't take an agreement to hear case as a sign the… Continue reading

Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Columbia Law Review). Here is the abstract: The most recent call for judicial intervention into state partisan gerrymandering practices ran aground on the shoals of standing doctrine in Gill v. Whitford.… Continue reading

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Republican leaders in the Virginia House of Delegates have formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block a lower court’s efforts to redraw the House map for the 2019 elections. In a court filing… Continue reading

So predicts key Court watcher John Elwood: My instinct is Court won't act before 1/4 conference. I suspect they'll reschedule until late January, so argument would come next fall. I doubt John Roberts wants to revisit an issue that flummoxed… Continue reading