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In fact, about 90 percent of the cases under the VRA during the 1980s through the 2000s were about redistricting and related issues. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 12:04 pm by Tom Crane
 Greg Abbott did not file the re-districting lawsuit arising from the 2011 legislature. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 7:33 am by Tyler Green
COUNSEL That’s exactly what prior Supreme Court redistricting cases said. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 8:35 am by Amy Howe
This meant that although the incumbent at the time, Republican Roscoe Bartlett, had won re-election by a margin of 28 percent in 2010, in 2012 he lost to a Democrat, John Delaney, by a margin of 21 percent. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 1:31 pm by Amy Howe
During the court’s 2017-2018 term, it seemed as though the justices might finally decide the partisan-gerrymandering question once and for all, in a challenge to the redistricting plan that Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature drew for the state’s general assembly in 2011. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 4:08 am by Lyle Denniston
Robert, at a hearing last term on the controversy, told a lawyer who was spelling out a proposed constitutional formula: “The whole point is you’re taking these issues away from democracy and you’re throwing them into the courts, pursuant to [what] I can only consider sociological gobbledygook. [read post]
6 May 2011, 6:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The problem is memory: it often has holes and it's easy to manipulate what you're sure you saw. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin S. Daniel
District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin held that the Wisconsin Legislature’s redistricting plan from 2011 is an “unconstitutional political gerrymander” because it “systematically dilutes the voting strength of Democratic voters statewide. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 12:26 pm by Amy Howe
Fourteen years ago, the Supreme Court reviewed a partisan-gerrymandering challenge to Pennsylvania’s redistricting plan. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 1:03 pm by Mark Walsh
” “If you let this go,” Smith continues, “if you say … we’re not going to have a judicial remedy for this problem, in 2020, you’re going to have a festival of copycat gerrymandering the likes of which this country has never seen. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 5:24 am by Kali Borkoski
Some great comments on the Texas redistricting cases follow the jump Kal Renzi 1 This case provides an ugly mechanism for an overall repeal of S5. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 2:03 pm by Amy Howe
“I’m not saying we can’t get” to a ruling for the challengers, Roberts concluded, “but this would be breaking new ground” in the court’s redistricting cases. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 9:55 am by David Post
Gill, as most of you are probably aware, involves a challenge to the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature’s 2011 redistricting map, a map that, according to the three-judge panel below, was both intended to, and did, systematically disadvantage Democratic voters and advantage Republican voters across the state. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 11:12 am by Daniel Tokaji
That’s a good thing, because intent is notoriously hard to prove or disprove, especially in redistricting cases. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:10 pm by Kali Borkoski
Question:   So as you’re writing, who was the audience you had in mind? [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:37 pm by Joseph Fishkin
”Fast forward two decades and we’re in round two. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:37 pm by Joseph Fishkin
”Fast forward two decades and we’re in round two. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 7:10 am by david_moore
Congress, we’re talking imminent negative territory, if such were possible. [read post]