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31 Jan 2024, 9:41 am
” The case began in 2021, when the ACLU, the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel filed suit against the Arkansas Board of Apportionment alleging the Arkansas reapportionment plan was racially gerrymandered under section two of the Voting Rights Act. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 6:22 pm
The case is now likely headed to the US Supreme Court.] [read post]
20 Nov 2023, 12:46 pm
The suit alleged that the Arkansas House of Representatives reapportionment plan dilutes the voting power of Black people. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 6:00 am
The post SCOTUS Upholds Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Alabama Redistricting Case appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 5:02 pm
This case is yet another illustration of Sir Walter Scott’s adage, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am
National/Federal No Rest Between Censuses for Congressional Mapmakers DNyuz – Reid Epstein (New York Times) | Published: 3/10/2023 For just about all of the nation’s history, politicians would fight over redistricting for a short period after each once-a-decade census, then forget about congressional maps until the next reapportionment. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 9:30 pm
For that and other reasons, the total number of such cases in the district courts, and direct appeals to the Supreme Court, swelled in the 1960s and 1970s. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 12:20 pm
In the course of discussing the currently most salient cases of Puerto Rico and DC, the Article analyzes a Twenty-third Amendment issue that has not been extensively discussed. (6) Breaking up (and merging) states. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
This might raise questions, for example, about the status of the Swedish or Austrian constitutions, both of which acceptable to most liberal theorists in terms of articulated values, but are, at the same time, far more permeable, to change than is the case with, notably, the United States Constitution, probably the most difficult-to-amend constitution in the entire world. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Carr and the court-led reapportionment revolution. [read post]
29 Oct 2022, 2:40 pm
Earlier appeal cases confirm that the “threshold for departing from equal division of property is high”. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 6:30 am
Brennan or Earl Warren, but, rather, John Marshall Harlan, who on notable occasions, including the reapportionment cases, dissented from quintessential “Warren Court” decisions. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 1:31 pm
Cottrell’s claim was dismissed as was his claim for a reapportionment of family property in his favour on the basis that his wife would be receiving a future “windfall” from a discretionary trust, gift or inheritance. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
After all, conventions were still called on a frequent basis in the Progressive Era and then again during the Reapportionment Revolution, even after legislature-referred amendments and later citizen-initiated amendments became viable options. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 1:12 pm
Every ten years, following the federal census, reapportionment of the state senate, assembly, and congressional districts in New York must be undertaken to account for population shifts and potential changes in the state's allocated number of congressional representatives (see NY Const, art III, § 4). [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 1:12 pm
Every ten years, following the federal census, reapportionment of the state senate, assembly, and congressional districts in New York must be undertaken to account for population shifts and potential changes in the state's allocated number of congressional representatives (see NY Const, art III, § 4). [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 2:07 pm
Note that in the earlier case Matter of A.C.G., the child had physical vulnerabilities not present in this case. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 12:55 pm
Russell sought reapportionment of the proceeds of sale based on his payment of the mortgage for 10 years. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 9:30 pm
: The Solicitor General’s Not So ‘Special’ Relationship–Archibald Cox and the 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases” won the Society’s Hughes-Gossett Prize in 2006.Finally, Mark Killenbeck, the Wylie H. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 8:57 am
Redistricting is the process of redrawing district lines based on population changes and in some cases may have to take into account a loss or gain of a representative after the reapportionment process. [read post]
