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Category Archives: redistricting
The response is due January 9. My earlier post explaining this stay request is here: Correction: North Carolina Officials Try for Emergency SCOTUS Relief in Racial Gerrymandering Case. … Continue reading
News & Observer reports. … Continue reading
FairVote reports. … Continue reading
Note: This post has been significantly corrected. See below. Back over the summer, a three-judge federal court found that a number of NC state legislative districts were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The state has an appeal of this ruling pending now … Continue reading
The Texas redistricting plaintiffs are getting desperate for a ruling, out of fear that further delay will endanger fixed maps for the 2018 elections. This case has been going on for the better part of a decade. Plaintiffs have now … Continue reading
New report from Election Data Services. … Continue reading
Listen at Slate Amicus. … Continue reading
Professor Peter Schuck is the author of an important 1987 article expressing doubt that the courts can successfully combat partisan gerrymandering. In a recent guest post on the Election Law Blog, Professor Schuck extends his skepticism to last month’s decision … Continue reading
Mike Parsons on yesterday’s racial gerrymandering arguments. … Continue reading
Dan Smith: Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Virginia. Plaintiffs claim that GOP lawmakers in the two states excessively packed black voters into congressional and state legislative districts, thus diluting the influence … Continue reading
New report from CAP. … Continue reading
Here is a guest post from Professor Peter Schuck: Still in the Thickest Thicket Peter Schuck Just before Thanksgiving, a 3-judge federal court gave Democrats good reason to cheer. It struck down a Wisconsin districting plan favoring Republican candidates as … Continue reading
Here. For my views on these cases generally, see my Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival, 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015). … Continue reading
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR on today’s racial gerrymandering cases being argued today at SCOTUS. For my views on these cases generally, see my Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival, 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015). … Continue reading
NYT editorial on partisan gerrymandering. … Continue reading
The Fix: “For the fourth time in 12 years, not a single one of the state’s 50-plus congressional districts switched parties. Just as in 2010, 2008 and 2004, every single seat returned to the party that previously controlled it.” … Continue reading
David Gans at Balkinization, on the cases from North Carolina and Virginia to be argued Monday. … Continue reading
At Vox: Democrats have reason to be frustrated these days. They won the presidential popular vote and the Senate popular vote, and they were just shy of winning the House popular vote. And yet they are entirely shut out of … Continue reading
McClatchy and Reuters on yesterday’s order from the three-judge USDC in the North Carolina racial gerrymandering case, requiring state house and senate districts to be redrawn by March 15, 2017. … Continue reading
Michael Parsons on the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
In a major victory for those who believe that courts should be in the business of policing redistricting plans that give partisan advantage to one party or another, a three-judge court has ruled 2-1 that the Wisconsin assembly districts drawn … Continue reading
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Extensive analysis from Michael Parsons. … Continue reading
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Voters in 11 Swing States Advised to Make Voting Plan: 2016 Election Swing State Report Report: Citizen-Led Redistricting Increases Voter Choices while Gerrymandering Leaves 33 Million with Only One Candidate on the Ballot … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Anthony J. McGann, Charles Anthony Smith, Michael Latner and Alex Keena: Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Vieth v. Jubelirer (541 US 267) is vulnerable. This decision … Continue reading
Liz Kennedy and Danelle Root for CAP. … Continue reading
Alec MacGillis for NYT Sunday Review: Liberals have a simple explanation for this state of affairs: Republican-led gerrymandering, which has put Democrats at a disadvantage in the House and in many state legislatures. But this overlooks an even bigger problem … Continue reading
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Tom Mann for TIME. … Continue reading
McGann, Smith, Latner, and Keena at Balkinization: In our new book Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, The Supreme Court and the Future of Popular Sovereignty, we look at an ongoing crisis in the way the House of Representatives … Continue reading
I have written this article for the October issue of the OC Lawyer magazine. A snippet: With the Supreme Court gaining unknown new personnel, in the upcoming decade we are likely to see the Court split on ideological and partisan grounds about election law … Continue reading
Crain’s Chicago Business: The go-to election lawyer for Mike Madigan and Rahm Emanuel is mildly horrified to hear some attorneys call him “the dean” of the election bar. The jolt comes during a rare interview with Michael Kasper, general counsel … Continue reading
Release: The Campaign Legal Center and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a complaint today on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and numerous individual voters, arguing that North Carolina’s 2016 congressional redistricting plan violates … Continue reading
You can find the unanimous 1st Circuit opinion at this link. Here is a statement from Demos. From the opinion: It is true that Evenwel did not decide the precise question before us. Nevertheless, we hold that its methodology and logic compel us … Continue reading
Upcoming CLE program with Jessica Ring Amunson. … Continue reading
You can find the unanimous opinion, finding that the plaintiff, representing himself was precluded from suing on a gerrymander because he brought an earlier suit before the election, here. … Continue reading
Nate Persily and I were interviewed for this Bloomberg BNA podcast. … Continue reading
NLJ’s Marcia Coyle for the Supreme Court Brief: The lawyers in all three cases have been in close coordination, said Mayer Brown’s Kimberly. If a decision is announced in the Wisconsin case by mid-September, he said, there will sufficient time to … Continue reading
KUT: A legal battle over some of the state’s political districts still isn’t over. About half a decade ago, a group of Texas voters sued the state claiming the legislature’s 2011 redistricting maps discriminated against minorities. About two years ago, … Continue reading
AP: A divided Illinois Supreme Court narrowly ruled Thursday that a voter referendum seeking to change how Illinois draws political boundaries is unconstitutional, making it ineligible to appear on the November ballot. The high court, in a 4-3 decision, affirmed … Continue reading
Michael Golden and Larry Lessig in the Chicago Sun-Times: Fortunately, some in Congress are working toward a solution. Just before the national conventions, the House Democratic leadership announced its “By The People” (BTP) legislative package. These reforms, backed by 187 … Continue reading
David Savage of the LAT reports on partisan gerrymandering cases working their way to #SCOTUS. … Continue reading
A unanimous 3-judge court (including the district court judge who recently upheld North Carolina’s strict voting law) has held in a 167-page opinion that challenged North Carolina legislative districts are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders and need to be redrawn. This ruling … Continue reading
The final version of Justin Levitt’s must read piece on the relationship between the VRA’s districting requirements and racial gerrymandering claims is now out from the FSU Law Review and available at SSRN. It is just in time as the Supreme … Continue reading
Release: The Campaign Legal Center, which is litigating the landmark case Whitford v. Gill to end partisan gerrymandering, today released a report, Make Democracy Count: Ending Partisan Gerrymandering. The report highlights the impact partisan gerrymandering, or the drawing of electoral … Continue reading
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