Showing posts with label Redistricting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redistricting. Show all posts
Monday, June 25, 2018

Supreme Court Upholds TX Congressional District Lines for All Except One District

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Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Abbott v. Perez , a racial gerrymandering challenge out of Texas.   The Court held that the l...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Supreme Court Stays Out of Partisan Gerrymandering Cases - For Now

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In a victory - at least for now - for courts staying out of partisan gerrymandering disputes, the Supreme Court today decided two of the thr...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in 7-Year-Long Texas Redistricting Case

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The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Abbott v. Perez , two consolidated racial redistricting cases out of Texas.  This is a long-r...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

The "Solution" in Redistricting Is Worse Than the Problem

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Charles Lane has good editorial entitled " This solution to gerrymandering is worse than the problem ," explaining the dangers of...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Benisek v. Lamone, Maryland Redistricting Case

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This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in  Benisek v. Lamone , a First Amendment retaliation challenge to Maryland's 6th C...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Democrats Are Using Courts To Take Redistricting Power Away From Legislatures

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RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen wrote today in The Daily Caller about how Democrats are trying - successfully - to seize political ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

PA GOP Describes Special Election Irregularities in Letter to PA SOS

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The Republican Party of Pennsylvania asked  acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert Torres to investigate several "irregularities...
Monday, March 12, 2018

The Supreme Court in Crisis: A Good Read, But No Crisis

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RNLA Member Donald Daugherty recently conducted a book review published by the Federalist Society on American Justice 2017: The Supreme Cou...
Friday, March 2, 2018

PA Legislators Ask Supreme Court to Stay Usurpation of Redistricting by PA Supreme Court

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On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Michael Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati filed an emergency application...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Pennsylvania Redistricting - Impeach PA Supreme Court Justices for Violating the PA Constitution?

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Late last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling that congressional redistricting maps drawn after the 2010 census and in us...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Dissecting the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Redistricting Order

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania handed down a per curiam  order regarding a recent redistricting lawsuit that worked its way u...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Redistricting Litigation Update

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The past few weeks have been very busy for redistricting litigation.   Here is the status of some of the current cases: The Supreme Cou...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Supreme Court Grants Cert in Maryland Redistricting Case

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To the surprise of Supreme Court observers and election lawyers, on Friday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a second political gerrymanderin...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

John Ryder on Whitford: Plaintiffs Ask Courts to Make Political Judgments

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RNLA Co-Chair John Ryder wrote a post-oral argument summary of the issues in  Gill v. Whitford , the Wisconsin political gerrymandering case...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

A Line the High Court Shouldn’t Cross - Gill v. Whitford

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Today, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion by RNLA Co-Chair John Ryder on the topic of Gill v. Whitford , the Wisconsin state redi...