Justin Levitt has written this must-read contribution to the 11 on ’11 series at Loyola’s Summary Judgments blog, focusing on the big legal stories in 2011.
Justin flags three things new about redistricting in 2011: more commission-based redistricting; the ability of individuals to use redistricting software to challenge legislatively-drawn proposals; and–you guessed it–an expected flood of voting rights and other redistricting-related litigation.