Whitford, a unanimous Supreme Court affirmed just three years ago that in order to challenge the alleged practices of “packing” and “cracking” on the part of the Wisconsin Republican legislative majority (that is, the practices of concentrating likely Democratic voters into a small number of districts that Democrats would win handily, spreading the rest around the state somewhat thinly, leaving the large majority of districts with Republicans having a substantial… [read post]

Kirk Baert has kindly permitted us to post his Application to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Smith v. [read post]