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Michael Morley on the SCOTUS AZ Redistricting Decision

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the use of independent redistricting commissions to redraw congressional district lines, by a bare 5-4 majority, in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. The Elections Clause of the U.S.Source: Michael Morley on the SCOTUS AZ Redistricting Decision...

Prison inmate forms super PAC

More stories about Politics, Law and Crime, United States, Politics of the United States, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Political action committee, Lobbying in the United StateSource: Prison inmate forms super PAC...

Gerrymandering isn’t evil

Few aspects of American elections inspire as much hand-wringing as gerrymandering. Its “distorting effect” has “increasingly polarized our politics,” Elizabeth Drew writes in the New York Review of Books.Source: Gerrymandering isn't evil...

California redistricting commission safe after Supreme Court upholds Arizona’s

The U.S. Supreme Court put California's independent citizens redistricting commission on much firmer footing Monday with a 5-4 ruling that upheld the constitutionality of Arizona's very similar panel.Source: California redistricting commission safe after Supreme Court upholds Arizona's...

The Constitution Needed a Judicial Assist

“The majority contends that its counterintuitive reading of ‘the Legislature’ is necessary to advance the ‘animating principle’ of popular sovereignty.Source: The Constitution Needed a Judicial Assist...

Independent Commissions Win in Court – But What’s Next?

This morning the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an assault on the power of the people to institute an independent redistricting commission to draw congressional districts.Source: Independent Commissions Win in Court - But What's Next?...

Breaking: #SCOTUS Upholds Independent AZ Redistricting Commission 5-4

You can read the 5-4 opinion here.Source: Breaking: #SCOTUS Upholds Independent AZ Redistricting Commission 5-4...

Voting-Rights Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court

Monday’s big election law news came from the Supreme Court’s penultimate decision of the term upholding Arizona’s congressional districts. But before handing down its last three decisions, the court made voting-rights advocates happy by deciding not to review a different election case.Source: Voting-Rights Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court...

Supreme Court’s Redistricting Ruling Averts 2016 Chaos—But Will It End Gerrymandering?

Election-reform advocates breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved independent redistricting commission in Arizona.Source: Supreme Court's Redistricting Ruling Averts 2016 Chaos—But Will It End Gerrymandering?...