I am reprinting with permission this message to the election law listserv from Nate Persily, and I hope that Nate will post more on this topic as the Supreme Court considers the Texas cases:
I have placed my article on court-drawn redistricting plans – “When Judges Carve Democracies: A Primer on Court-Drawn Redistricting Plans,” 73 GW L Rev 1131 (2005), at the following link:
I wish the Court could have considered the issues underlying court-drawn plans outside the context of an emergency situation like this. But with luck (perhaps a lot of it), we might get some clarity for the rules that will govern the many court-drawn plans that will need to be created for the deadlocked states currently unable to adopt redistricting plans.Nathaniel Persily
Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and
Political Science
Columbia Law School
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