The article reports on two gerrymandering lawsuits that will be ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court. It mentions the possible use of partisan symmetry as a standard to establish election districts, the reluctance of the current Supreme Court to handle gerrymandering cases, and the need to set ...
It’s the second time this term that the justices have weighed the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering. In October, the justices heard arguments in a case challenging Wisconsin’s 2011 redistricting map. The cases have raised speculation about whether the court for the first time might st...
John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse are encouraging the Supreme Court to create new standards for what constitutes gerrymandering. The concept of gerrymandering refers to the drawing of electoral district lines with the intent of favoring one party. In some cases, it involves collusion between political...
hates gerrymandering cases. When courts overturn legislatures' redistricting maps, "you're taking these issues away from democracy" and deciding them on what "I can only describe as sociological gobbledygook," Roberts said in October during oral arguments in a Wisconsin redistricting case, Gill ...
On January 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear two partisan gerrymandering cases this coming March. In one of the cases, Rucho v. Common Cause, Patterson Belknap is co-counsel for the plaintiffs-appellees. Rucho is a challenge to North Carolina’s heavily ...
If you and every other Democrat (or Republican – the other of today’s cases involved Democratic gerrymandering in Maryland) has been packed into one district by a devious gerrymander, you can’t affect the political process they way you could’ve if the district lines were fair. ...
Come Tuesday, the court will hear oral arguments urging it to referee gerrymandering in the drawing of congressional districts. The justices should, like Ulysses, listen to this siren song but bind themselves from obeying it. The arguments will concern two cases: one from ...
In a year full of contentious(有争议的) cases from gerrymandering(不公正地改划选区) to President Donald Trump’s travel ban(禁令), Chief Justice Roberts may be working behind the scenes to lower the temperature[1] where possible, even if that means avoiding giving clear guidance on where ...
Under the aegis of the regressive legal theory of “originalism”, they have issued a blistering succession of reactionary rulings on voting rights, gerrymandering, union organizing, the death penalty, environmental protection, gun control, abortion, campaign finance, and the use of dark money in ...
At a rally before the court hearing, speeches addressed all the cases that are in peril in the majority-Republican court: gerrymandering, voter ID, Leandro education funding and voting rights for people on parole or probation for a felony. ...