Plaintiffs-Appellees have filed their briefs in Rucho v. Common Cause/League of Women Voters. From the Common Cause plaintiffs’ brief: The 2016 North Carolina Congressional Plan (“2016 Plan” or “Plan”) is the most overt, and likely the… Continue reading

WaPo op-ed: Though I will not run for president in 2020, I will continue to fight for the future of our country through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and its affiliates. For too long, Democrats have lost sight of… Continue reading

AP reports that the trial before the three-judge district court is scheduled to start Monday in Cincinnati.

The Baltimore Sun reports: Two members of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s redistricting commission resigned after The Baltimore Sun asked questions about whether their participation in the body redrawing Maryland’s congressional districts violated state rules.The move came as the commission… Continue reading

The abstract of this new ELJ article: Redistricting has been a highly contentious topic in American politics for many decades. The many instances of politicians exploiting the redistricting process to achieve a partisan goal have been widely chronicled. Nonpartisan… Continue reading

Concord Monitor: House Bill 706 passed 218-123, but only 16 members of the Republican minority voted in favor of the proposal, with 123 Republican members against.Crafted by Durham Democrat Marjorie Smith, the bill would create an independent redistricting commission… Continue reading

Wisconsin State Journal reports.

Detroit News: A three-judge panel is weighing the fate of a high-profile federal lawsuit alleging gerrymandering by Republican mapmakers who drew Michigan political boundaries in 2011.Plaintiffs who sued over the maps and Republicans who are defending them on Friday… Continue reading

Will Doran: Now might be the best chance to end gerrymandering in North Carolina, at least for another decade, a bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday when they introduced a bill to do just that.Their proposal would end North Carolina’s… Continue reading

WRAL: A key North Carolina GOP lawmaker says Republicans won’t appeal a ruling by state judges that the General Assembly violated a constitutional prohibition against mid-decade redistricting because it unnecessarily changed four House districts in 2017.

Sam Wang, Richard Ober, & Ben Williams have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Despite multiple opportunities to address the issue, the Supreme Court has declined to take action on partisan gerrymandering. Here we argue that the… Continue reading