Monthly Archives: July 2019

ELB Symposium: Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho [Complete List of Symposium Posts]

July 5, 2019, 7:20 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

During this week, I posted some great contributions from a number of important election law voices on the future of partisan gerrymandering after the Supreme Court’s opinion in Rucho. Thanks to all for participating! Here are the posts: Michael … Continue reading

Sam Wang: Resolving the proportional representation problem for state courts (Rucho Symposium)

July 5, 2019, 7:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Sam Wang, part of the symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering after Rucho: Chief Justice Roberts’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause expresses a paradox: (a) gerrymandering a map for political advantage goes… Continue reading

“The Shocking Final Count in the Queens District Attorney Race: What Happened”

July 5, 2019, 7:09 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Almost immediately after the news broke of Ms. Katz’s breakthrough, people began speculating about more nefarious explanations.In particular, Ms. Cabán’s supporters have accused the Queens County Democratic Party, whose leaders supported Ms. Katz, of engineering the disqualification of… Continue reading

“It’s Not Just the White House in 2020. The Power to Draw Maps Is Also at Stake.”

July 5, 2019, 7:01 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT reports.

Rebecca Green: A Spade is a Spade (Rucho Symposium)

July 5, 2019, 7:00 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

Moon Duchin: How to Reason from the Universe of Maps (The Normative Logic of Map Sampling) (Rucho symposium)

July 5, 2019, 6:56 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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,… Continue reading

Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer: Rucho: Democracy and Banality (Rucho symposium)

July 5, 2019, 6:00 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

Since Trump Tweet, Justice Department Lawyers Trying to Come Up with New Pretext for Including Citizenship Question on Census; Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo Pushing Trump To Do This Despite Supreme Court Ruling

July 4, 2019, 8:40 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Washington Post: Trump was furious and thought the Commerce Department and the Justice Department — which has been arguing the case — had given up the fight too easily. He complained about Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.,who he said… Continue reading

Rob Richie on CSPAN Tomorrow Morning, Talking Election Reform and Gerrymandering

July 4, 2019, 2:34 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Watch.

On NPR’s All Things Considered, Talking About the Latest Census Developments

July 4, 2019, 2:27 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

You can listen here.

Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters (Rucho Symposium)

July 4, 2019, 1:00 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

“U.S. District Court Enjoins New Arkansas Petition 3% Requirement for New Parties”

July 4, 2019, 11:14 amballot accessRick Hasen

BAN: On July 3, U.S. District Court Judge Kristin G. Baker enjoined the new Arkansas petition requirement for newly-qualifying parties. Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Thurston, e.d., 4:19cv-214. Here is the 63-page order.Earlier this year, the Arkansas legislature… Continue reading

“Server image mystery in Georgia election security case”

July 4, 2019, 11:04 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

AP: The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn.Nearly two years ago, state lawyers in a closely watched election integrity lawsuit told the judge they intended to subpoena the FBI… Continue reading

Further Information On The Census Issue

July 4, 2019, 10:00 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

We are beginning to get little windows into the internal governmental process involved in the reversal-of-course on the Census issue. As expected, the DOJ lawyers concluded that the issue was over, because there was not enough time left to generate… Continue reading

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