Political Gerrymandering Cases Flatline at Supreme Court
Two political gerrymandering cases that stoked voter passions across the United States fizzled on procedural grounds Monday at the Supreme Court.
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Ninth Circuit Remands California City’s Voting Plan
California and city of Poway must defend the state’s Voting Rights Act, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, reversing dismissal of a constitutional complaint from a former mayor of San Diego County’s “City in the Country.”
Read moreLA County Fights Law Requiring Redistricting Panels
Los Angeles County will continue fighting a 2016 law that requires a randomized citizens committee to draw new voting lines, written by one if its own state senators.
Read moreSupreme Court Grapples With Texas Redistricting Case
Fighting claims over racially gerrymandered voting districts, the Texas solicitor general told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state can’t be responsible for adopting a map that was court-drawn.
Read moreAttorney Fees
Attorneys defending Wisconsin in a redistricting lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court reportedly cost state taxpayers $60,000 for just 10 minutes of oral argument.
Read moreKern County Ordered to Refranchise Latino Voters
Kern County at the southern end of California’s great Central Valley will implement new voting districts and pay plaintiff $3 million in legal fees after disenfranchising Latino voters for nearly a decade.
Read moreJudge Rules Political Parties Can Restrict Who Votes at Their Events
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Republican Party of Virginia has a right to bar individuals from voting at its meetings or conventions who have supported nonparty candidates.
Read moreExperts Balk at Judicial Impeachment Moves in Pennsylvania
As regional gerrymandering challenges draw an increasingly national focus, impeachment threats inspired by one such case drew condemnation from experts in constitutional law and judicial ethics.
Read moreSupreme Court Grapples With Maryland Gerrymander Case
Grappling with its second partisan gerrymandering case of the term, the Supreme Court appeared highly conflicted Wednesday on whether Maryland violated the First Amendment rights of Republicans by shifting the political makeup of their congressional district.
Read moreMaryland Gerrymander Case Offers Unique Test to High Court
The Supreme Court will dive into partisan gerrymandering Wednesday for the second time in less than six months, as a group of Maryland Republicans attempt to show that state lawmakers redrew their congressional district to punish their political affiliation.
Read moreRepublican Concedes Loss in Pennsylvania Special Election
Over a week after Democrat Conor Lamb claimed victory in Pennsylvania’s highly anticipated special election, the Republican candidate ended his party’s push for a recount Wednesday night.
Read moreSupreme Court Denies GOP Bid to Block New Pa. Congressional Map
The Supreme Court on Monday denied an emergency appeal by Pennsylvania Republicans to block the implementation of new congressional maps, a significant blow to the GOP that makes it far more likely that the new maps will be in place for the 2018 elections.
Read moreFourth Circuit Finds Lower Court Erred in Attorney’s Fee Award
The Fourth Circuit Tuesday said it’s up to a lower court to reset a $1.35 million attorney’s fee award in a long-running Virginia gerrymander case after concluding it’s not up to the Commonwealth to foot the bill for the members of Congress who intervened in the case.
Read moreJudge Blasts Anti-Latino Bias in Kern County Redistricting
In a rare challenge of a California voting district, a federal judge sided with residents that Kern County “dilutes” Latino voters’ influence through discriminatory district lines drawn in 2011.
Read more2018 State Ballots Could Seek Revised Redistricting Criteria
A look at proposed redistricting initiatives that have been approved to appear on statewide ballots this year or for which supporters have collected signatures in an attempt to qualify them. Other proposals are earlier in the initiative process.
Read moreCourt-Fashioned Pennsylvania Redistricting Divides GOP, Experts
Unveiled by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after state lawmakers failed to revise gerrymandered election districts, the new maps sparked applause by nonpartisan experts but GOP outrage Tuesday.
Read moreCourt to Seek New Map in Pennsylvania Gerrymandering Case
Thursday is deadline day in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes gerrymandering case for Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and others to submit maps of new congressional district boundaries that they want the state Supreme Court to adopt for this year’s election.
Read morePa. Governor Rejects Latest GOP District Map
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Tom Wolf said Tuesday he is rejecting a new proposed map for the state’s congressional districts, saying the latest map drafted by the state legislature’s top Republicans continues to be an unconstitutional gerrymander.
Read more20 States Fight Addition of Citizenship Question to Census
Nineteen attorneys general and the governor of Colorado banded together Monday to protest the proposed inclusion of citizen status in the 2020 census.
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Pennsylvania GOP Submits New Congressional Map to Governor
The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania legislature on Friday night submitted a new statewide map of congressional districts to the state’s Democratic governor. The map is intended to replace a districting plan declared unconstitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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