NYT: A New York appeals court judge on Friday signed off on the appointment of a neutral expert to prepare new congressional district lines that could be used if the state’s highest court upholds a lower-court ruling that struck down… Continue reading

Mark Brown for Jurist.

Baltimore Sun: Gov. Larry Hogan, ending a monthslong legal and legislative tussle with Democrats, signed a map of Maryland’s congressional districts on Monday that the General Assembly redrew after a judge rejected the first version as extremely partisan.Hogan,… Continue reading

NYT reports.

You can find the 18-page ruling here, a ruling which is sure to be appealed. If the ruling stands and New York does not draw batter maps, the court will appoint a neutral expert to do so. I’m guessing that… Continue reading

NYT: With the midterm election cycle fast approaching, Republicans in the key states of Florida and Ohio have made critical progress in their push to add to their dominance on congressional maps by carving new districts that would be… Continue reading

Politico reports. The final stage of the redistricting cycle has arrived: gridlock.Spats between governors and state legislators — and between different Republican factions — have brought map-making to a standstill in the final four states still without new congressional… Continue reading

Kathryn Randolph has a two part series (one, two) with a deep dive on the state law claims over at the State & Local Government Law Blog.

New article from Kai Hao Yang and Alexander Zentefis: We assess the capacity of gerrymandering to undermine the will of the people in a representative democracy. Citizens have political positions represented on a spectrum, and electoral maps separate people into… Continue reading

Out of the frying pan, from Cleveland.com: A federal court is considering whether to order Ohio to trim its early voting period for the May 3 primary election to buy more time for the state’s stalled redistricting efforts.During a… Continue reading