In a case that could force the redrawing of congressional maps before the 2018 elections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Thursday ordered a Commonwealth Court judge to hear a gerrymandering lawsuit by the end of the year. The high court’s 4-3 vote overturned a Commonwealth Court decision.Source: Gerrymandering suit can proceed, Pa. Supreme Court rules...
On the evening of September 12, the U.S. Supreme Court countermanded two rulings of lower federal courts in Texas, and said that Texas need not draw new districts in time for the 2018 election. One case involved U.S. House districts; the other state house districts. See this Scotusblog post.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Require Texas to Draw New Districts In...
Attorneys who advise state elected officials need no crystal ball to see what an affirmance in Gill v. Whitford would mean for their clients. … Speaker of the Utah House: A woman in her early 50s; a recovering lawyer.Source: Symposium: Gill v. Whitford as bad theater...
On a late-spring evening in Boston, just as the sun was beginning to set, a group of mathematicians lingered over the remains of the dinner they had just shared. While some cleared plates from the table, others started transforming skewers and hunks of raw potato into wobbly geodesic forms.Source: A Summer School for Mathematicians Fed Up with Gerrymandering...
WASHINGTON - There are few things that strike more fear into the heart of a member of Congress than the word “redistricting.Source: Fearing 2018 losses, Texas Republicans in Congress want special session on redistricting...
The hand-to-hand political combat in House elections on Tuesday in Georgia and last week in Kansas had the feel of the first rounds of an epic battle next year for control of the House of Representatives and the direction of national politics as the Trump presidency unfolds.Source: Key Question for Supreme Court: Will It Let Gerrymanders Stand?...
