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Jan 23 2024
News
SCOTUS denies redistricting stay as in-person meetings get underway
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to stop the redrawing of seven Michigan state House districts. The order was issued Monday in response to an appeal of a lower court’s decision declaring the districts unconstitutional. Michigan’s redistricting commission has been redrawing the boundaries to follow the lower court order while it awaited word from the high court. The Michigan
WEMUJun 28 2023
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Congressional redistricting process begins with public hearing
The special session to redraw Alabama’s Congressional district map doesn’t start until July 17, but the process has already begun with the first public hearing on the matter. Members of the public including plaintiffs from the landmark Milligan v. Allen decision that overturned the state’s original map came forward to discuss their favored maps. The plaintiffs in the case reinforced their
Alabama Political ReporterOct 19 2023
News
Appeal of New Mexico gerrymandering verdict going before state Supreme Court
Republicans will have a chance to argue against New Mexico’s redistricting process in the state’s Supreme Court, as a hearing was set for the GOP’s appeal of a district court decision that upheld the redrawn maps. The GOP will argue its case in a hearing scheduled for Nov. 20, according to an order filed Tuesday. New Mexico’s congressional district map was redrawn in 2021 to account for
Carlsbad Current-ArgusDec 19 2023
News
Louisiana lawmakers prepare for special sessions on redistricting and crime
Louisiana lawmakers are gearing up for Sessionpalooza in 2024. An organizational session, one for the congressional map, another on crime, and then the regular session in March. LAPolitics.com Publisher Jeremy Alford says the last time the legislature had this many sessions on the calendar was in 2008. “We’re looking at four different sessions being convened during the first three months of
Louisiana Radio NetworkOct 06 2023
News
A judge rules against a Republican challenge of a congressional redistricting map in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state judge ruled against a Republican Party challenge of new congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region, in an order published Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic state lawmakers in 2021 succeeded in substantially diluting votes of their
KNWANov 16 2023
News
No more redistricting games: The Court of Appeals should follow its ruling from last year
Last year, the highest court in New York State, the Court of Appeals, heard the crucial redistricting case covering seats for Congress and state Senate on Tuesday, April 26, and issued their decision throwing out the maps drawn by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority the next day, Wednesday, April 27. Disappointed that their attempted extreme partisan gerrymander was foiled by judges
New York Daily NewsJun 29 2019
Opinion
Gerrymandering ruling a constitutional victory
The Supreme Court has definitively declined to involve federal courts in the Game of Thrones that is redistricting, ruling that conflicts over partisan gerrymandering are best left to politicians and the electoral process. The two cases resolved Thursday surely presented the strongest imaginable temptation to impose the judicial will on the wheel of politics: North Carolina Democrats and
Guest Writer - RightOct 13 2023
News
Republicans plan to appeal verdict to uphold maps in New Mexico gerrymandering lawsuit
Republicans on Wednesday appealed a district judge’s verdict last week in the GOP’s gerrymandering lawsuit against Democrats, which sought to overturn redrawn congressional districts, seeking a hearing before the New Mexico Supreme Court. The redistricting process, which concluded in December 2021, was in response to population changes from the 2020 Census. It notably split portions of Eddy
Carlsbad Current-ArgusMar 14 2022
Opinion
The Rocky Road To Redistricting Reform
A three-part series by Dan McLaughlin in National Review surveys the prospects for gerrymandering reform following a year in which Democrats, rather than Republicans as widely predicted, appear to have gained ground overall in the redistricting process. McLaughlin nicely lays out the history of partisan dynamics on this issue, offers an effective critique of Democrats’ chief bills in Congress
Cato InstituteOct 11 2023
News
Supreme Court skeptical of South Carolina racial gerrymandering claims in Mace's district
The Supreme Court raised concerns during oral arguments Wednesday that a civil rights group had no direct evidence that racial discrimination occurred in South Carolina’s recent redistricting process, signaling the court could overturn a lower court's decision that had favored the group. The skepticism from the justices came as they listened to arguments in Alexander v. South Carolina State
Washington Examiner