Reformers hoping to rein in partisan gerrymandering have a big idea that’s caught on in several states: handing the redistricting power over to an independent commission, rather than politicians in the legislature, as Michigan’s electorate voted to do last year.Source: Michigan has a smart idea for fixing gerrymandering. Conservatives want to crush it....
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v. Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American voters. Justice Kagan’s dissent encourages courts to employ an “evidence-based, data-based, statistics-based” approach when considering political gerrymandering claims.Source: Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters...
Justin Riemer is Chief Counsel of the Republican National Committee, which filed an amicus brief in support of the state in Rucho v. Common Cause. The Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause is a triumph of judicial prudence.Source: Gerrymandering symposium: Finally finality from the Supreme Court on partisan gerrymandering...
Ken Klukowski is Of Counsel at First Liberty Institute, Senior Legal Analyst for Breitbart News and Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union.Source: Gerrymandering symposium: Janus-like judicial restraint in political gerrymanders and the census...
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the partisan gerrymandering that has allowed Republicans to control power in several closely divided states. A majority ruled that elected lawmakers, not judges, have right to draw the election maps for their states.Source: Partisan gerrymandering is upheld by Supreme Court...
The U.S.. Supreme Court opinions on partisan gerrymandering will probably be released either Friday June 21, or Monday June 24. No election law cases were issued on June 20.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Gerrymander Opinions Likely on June 21 or June 24...
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside two lower court rulings tossing out congressional maps in Michigan and Ohio, putting the process of redrawing district lines on hold while it prepares to rule on whether or not partisan gerrymandering is constitutional.Source: Supreme Court blocks gerrymandering rulings in Michigan and Ohio...
Most Americans agree that partisan gerrymandering is a scourge to democracy. But is it one that citizens can fix themselves? That’s the theory floated by Justice Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday over two major gerrymandering cases.Source: Neil Gorsuch’s Bad-Faith Ploy to Save Partisan Gerrymandering and Doom American Democracy...
At oral arguments in yesterday’s partisan gerrymandering cases, several Justices raised questions about whether partisan-gerrymandering challenges implicitly appeal in one way or another to a baseline of proportional representation (PR).Source: Proportionality is Not the Baseline In Modern Partisan Gerrymandering Cases...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a redistricting case that could help determine the balance of power in Virginia’s legislature for years to come.Source: U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in appeal of Virginia racial gerrymandering case...
