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...
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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...
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 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...
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?...
You can read the 5-4 opinion here.Source: Breaking: #SCOTUS Upholds Independent AZ Redistricting Commission 5-4...
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...
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?...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler again signaled his agency is not focusing on a Democratic push that would require some political ads to name the top donors behind them.Source: FCC again signals no plan to require political ads to name top donors...
