Mississippi cites Gill v. Whitford in contesting challengers’ standing to contest the requirement that statewide candidates win both a majority of the state and a majority of state house districts. And the Court’s refusal to recognize that redistricting problems are … Continue reading
Category Archives: redistricting
Nathan Gonzales in Roll Call counting an awful lot of chickens: Democrats’ potential challenge in the next round of redistricting will be drawing new lines at the apex of electoral performance. … Continue reading
Facing South on the lawsuits challenging the validity of amendments to the state constitution because they were passed by a legislature elected via unlawful district lines. … Continue reading
Some enlightening answers on interesting questions. She’s spot-on on partisan gerrymandering. And on Spider-Man. … Continue reading
David Gans weighs in on the base for representation in redistricting. UPDATE: Keshia Morris does too. … Continue reading
With some fascinating data on the fastest shrinking, and fastest growing, place in every state. … Continue reading
Kyle Kondik reviews partisan control of the process for Rasmussen. I’ve got a summary of who’s in charge of what, with the partisan control as of today, right here for Congress and here for state legislatures. … Continue reading
The application process is underway, until August 9, with stats (including the mix of gender, region, ethnicity, and political affiliation) updated regularly here. As of last week, 5000 people have applied for 14 slots. … Continue reading
The bill to respond to partisan gerrymandering in the state gets some bipartisan support after Rucho. And Miles Rapoport reviews some of the efforts underway elsewhere. … Continue reading
And they’re (correctly) not happy. … Continue reading
A clever title for a clever piece about partisan gerrymandering, and the doctrine holding the Guarantee Clause nonjusticiable. I’m inclined to agree on the substance. … Continue reading
Ari Berman adds his voice to discussion of the potential ahead. … Continue reading
A letter in the WSJ claims that Eric Holder helped to lead the charge in Bethune-Hill, after approving Virginia districts in 2011. Consider me skeptical. The letter appears to conflate preclearance approval (which focused on two particular legal standards; every … Continue reading
Elbridge Gerry. … Continue reading
San Juan County, Utah, has had a long history of trouble, over several decades, with respect to providing equal opportunities for the Navajo community, including in voting. Today, the 10th Circuit affirmed a lower court opinion redrawing the district lines … Continue reading
The candidates weigh in on using citizenship data in the redistricting process. … Continue reading
Harvard undergrads weigh in on HR 1. … Continue reading
As a Jersey native, this one caught my eye pretty quickly: an impressive group of scholars and advocates published a report recommending reforms to New Jersey’s redistricting system. … Continue reading
A report from the opening days of the state court’s partisan gerrymandering trial in North Carolina. … Continue reading
Gene Nichol, in the News & Observer, with a local’s view on Rucho (feat. Shelby County). … Continue reading
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board discusses the consequences when redistricting counts people temporarily incarcerated at a place far from home. … Continue reading
Morning Edition on Common Cause v. Lewis, the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case in state court, heading into trial today. … Continue reading
TPM dives in on the citizenship-data Paperwork Reduction Act filing spotted over the weekend. And Reuters reviews the legal battles that might result. … Continue reading
Chock full of election-law goodies. Among other pieces: Elizabeth Warren, Foreword (on corruption and faith in government)Jeffrey Clements, “But It Will Happen”: A Constitutional Amendment to Secure Political Equality in Election Spending and RepresentationViki Harrison, How One State Legislature Grappled … Continue reading
Rebecca Spang with a Bastille Day connection to unabashed partisan redistricting. … Continue reading
The Nation picks up the redistricting thread. … Continue reading
Sam Wang in the NYT looks to the states. … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang points to a July 3 census filing under the Paperwork Reduction Act (the weeds matter, people) in which the Department of Commerce, “having carefully considered the matter, has determined that there is not sufficient time to develop … Continue reading
With the legal fight over the content of the 2020 enumeration questionnaire finally settled, commentators and advocates are turning to the fight over getting the count right. Here’s one example from Josh Geltzer and Mary McCord in the WaPo, and … Continue reading
And here’s the other turn Rick’s been forecasting: a HuffPost piece discussing the potential to use data culled for the President’s Executive Order in the redistricting process. And a WaPo dive on the potential consequences. … Continue reading
As Michael Li explains, on All Things Considered. … Continue reading
The files from Tom Hofeller that Rick keeps mentioning in the context of the census case were given to advocates in North Carolina primarily for use in a redistricting case in state court (i.e., not affected by the SCOTUS ruling … Continue reading
Fixed now, but a helpful reminder that cities are organic, not static … and that it helps to let election offices know as they grow or shrink. … Continue reading
Fascinating read. … Continue reading
In earlier posts, and in a Slate piece, I explained that both the original reason for trying to include the citizenship question on the census and Trump’s executive order issued yesterday was to allow states to try to draw districts … Continue reading
Here, at the Public Discourse. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Rebecca Green, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: The Rucho decision is hard to get your head around. Plaintiffs presented two clean cases with clear “smoking guns”: partisan gerrymanders in which legislators … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Moon Duchin, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Justice Kagan’s dissent in Rucho states in its opening paragraphs: “The majority’s abdication comes just when courts across the country, including those below, have … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: One would be hard-pressed to find a more hackneyed Supreme Court opinion than Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion in Rucho. It … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Michael Morley, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v. Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American voters. Justice Kagan’s dissent encourages courts to employ … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Mike Parsons, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: In holding that partisan gerrymandering claims are not “resolvable according to legal principles” and are “therefore beyond [federal] courts’ jurisdiction,” Chief Justice … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Justin Levitt, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Last Thursday’s Rucho majority opinion brought many indignities. The shadowboxing with strawmen, in the form of proportionality claims no litigant put forward. The … Continue reading
Daniel Nichanian for The Appeal. … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Rick Pildes, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Now that the Supreme Court’s decision means that limits on partisan gerrymandering will have to come from venues such as Independent Redistricting Commissions (IRC) … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Keith Gaddie, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Felix Frankfurter called redistricting a “political thicket” which the federal courts would do well to avoid. And, when the court did dive into … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Wendy Tam Cho, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: We have been focused for some time on the Supreme Court’s role in regulating partisan gerrymandering. Now that we know the Supreme Court … Continue reading
It is undeniably good news that the Trump Administration decided to abandon the citizenship question in the face of evidence that it would depress turnout especially among those with noncitizens in a household and in light of the Supreme Court’s … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Sam Issacharoff, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: The 33-year search for judicial standards in partisan gerrymandering cases came to a crashing conclusion this Term. As Justice Kagan noted in … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Franita Tolson, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that a partisan gerrymandering claim presented a nonjusticiable political question because of the lack of … Continue reading