Redistricting reform in New Jersey
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.
Category Archives: redistricting
“NC trial looks at partisan bias after US justices won’t”
A
report from the opening days of the state court’s partisan gerrymandering trial
in North Carolina.
“Roberts gave GOP cover on gerrymandering”
Gene Nichol, in the News & Observer, with a local’s view on Rucho (feat. Shelby County).
Prison gerrymandering and the impact on cities
The Philadelphia
Inquirer’s editorial board discusses the consequences when redistricting
counts people temporarily incarcerated at a place far from home.
“North Carolina Gerrymandering Trial Could Serve As Blueprint For Other States”
Morning Edition on Common Cause v. Lewis, the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case in state court, heading into trial today.
More on citizenship and redistricting
TPM dives in on the citizenship-data Paperwork Reduction Act filing spotted over the weekend.
And Reuters
reviews the legal battles that might result.
New volume of the Harvard Law & Policy Review is out
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,… Continue reading
“What the French Revolution teaches us about the dangers of gerrymandering”
Rebecca
Spang with a Bastille Day connection to unabashed partisan redistricting.
Citizenship data and the redistricting fight
The
Nation picks up the redistricting thread.
“If the Supreme Court Won’t Prevent Gerrymandering, Who Will?”
Sam Wang in the NYT looks
to the states.
Citizenship and the Census: Behind the Bluster
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
Citizenship and the Census: pivot to the complete count
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
Citizenship and the Census: pivot to redistricting
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.
Citizenship and the Census: representation is not the same as voting
As Michael Li explains, on All
Things Considered.