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Applying Movement Lawyering Principles To The Redistricting Movement, Lavanya Prabhakar
Applying Movement Lawyering Principles To The Redistricting Movement, Lavanya Prabhakar
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
Despite national attention to unfair congressional district maps, efforts to make maps more representative through litigation have felt futile. However, despite unfavorable Supreme Court rulings, organizing around redistricting has seen wins on the state level, through the creation of independent redistricting commissions and map redraws. First, this Note reviews the history of race-based and partisan gerrymandering and the volatile swings of redistricting litigation. Then, it considers the role of organizing in redistricting, focusing on case studies from Ohio and North Carolina. Finally, relying on firsthand interviews and available data, this Note argues that organizing and litigation must work together under …
Disentangling Race And Politics: Racial Gerrymandering In South Carolina's First Congressional District, Matthew Poliakoff
Disentangling Race And Politics: Racial Gerrymandering In South Carolina's First Congressional District, Matthew Poliakoff
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
After the 2020 Census, South Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature redrew the boundaries for Congressional District 1, historically anchored in Charleston County. After thirty-thousand African American voters were moved out of District 1 and into District 6, the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP challenged the new map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. A three-judge district court panel agreed, finding that race predominated above other factors in the map redraw. On appeal, the question remains not only whether the state legislature used race above other factors in its map design, but also how plaintiffs are expected to prove these claims in …
The Mad Hatter’S Quip: Looking For Logic In The Independent State Legislature Theory, Nicholas Maggio, Foreword By Brendan Buschi
The Mad Hatter’S Quip: Looking For Logic In The Independent State Legislature Theory, Nicholas Maggio, Foreword By Brendan Buschi
Touro Law Review
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that threatens the bedrock of America’s democracy, and it is not clear how it will shake out. The cumbersomely named “Independent State Legislature Theory” is at the heart of the case Moore v. Harper, which is before the Supreme Court this term. The theory holds that state legislatures should be free from the ordinary bounds of state judicial review when engaged in matters that concern federal elections. Despite being defeated a myriad of times at the Supreme Court, the latest challenge stems from a legal battle over North Carolina’s redistricting maps. …
Partisan Gerrymandering: The Promise And Limits Of State Court Judicial Review, Norman R. Williams
Partisan Gerrymandering: The Promise And Limits Of State Court Judicial Review, Norman R. Williams
Marquette Law Review
In 2021, the Oregon Legislature succeeded in redrawing the state’s legislative and congressional districts, but the new redistricting plans were immediately challenged in state court as partisan gerrymanders. The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the challenge to the state legislative map, but its analysis, which accorded significant deference to the legislature’s choices, raised more questions than answers about the appropriate level of scrutiny for state redistricting plans. A special, five-judge court likewise rejected the gerrymandering challenge to the congressional map, and, while its analysis was less deferential, its decision also left unanswered the fundamental question regarding at what point a redistricting …
Candidates Of Their Choice? Paradoxical Impact Of The Voting Rights Act In Virginia, Mark E. Rush
Candidates Of Their Choice? Paradoxical Impact Of The Voting Rights Act In Virginia, Mark E. Rush
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
No abstract provided.
Epic Fail: Harkenrider V. Hochul And New York's 2022 Misadventure In "Independent" Redistricting, Richard Briffault
Epic Fail: Harkenrider V. Hochul And New York's 2022 Misadventure In "Independent" Redistricting, Richard Briffault
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
No abstract provided.
A Newfound Power: How The Ohio Supreme Court Should Approach The Next Partisan Gerrymander, Bradley Davis
A Newfound Power: How The Ohio Supreme Court Should Approach The Next Partisan Gerrymander, Bradley Davis
Indiana Law Journal
Partisan gerrymandering is a practice as old as the nation itself and a problem both state and federal courts continue to struggle with. In 2015, the people of Ohio overwhelmingly voted to amend the state constitution to prevent overly partisan outcomes in state legislative redistricting. Following the 2021 redistricting cycle, the Ohio Supreme Court narrowly struck down several redistricting proposals in what devolved into a protracted fight with legislators and executive officials. This Note carefully lays out the development of redistricting jurisprudence, Ohio’s relevant constitutional provisions, and various state and federal judicial approaches to alleged gerrymanders. Using a combination of …
A Modern-Day 3/5 Compromise: The Case For Finding Prison Gerrymandering Unconstitutional Under The Thirteenth Amendment, Shana Iden
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
Vestiges of slavery and systemic disenfranchisement of people of color persist in the United States. One of these remnants is the practice of prison gerrymandering, which occurs when government officials count incarcerated individuals as part of the population of the prison’s location rather than the individual’s home district. This Article argues that prison gerrymandering functions as a badge of slavery that should be prohibited under the Thirteenth Amendment.
First, this Article provides background on prison gerrymandering and charts its impact through history, particularly on Black communities. Moreover, this Article analyzes how litigation under the Fourteenth Amendment has not yielded meaningful …
Rucho In The States: Districting Cases And The Nature Of State Judicial Power, Chad M. Oldfather
Rucho In The States: Districting Cases And The Nature Of State Judicial Power, Chad M. Oldfather
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
No abstract provided.
Rounding Up The Three-Fifths Clause: Eradicating Prison Gerrymandering In The South, Abigail N. Falk
Rounding Up The Three-Fifths Clause: Eradicating Prison Gerrymandering In The South, Abigail N. Falk
Pepperdine Law Review
This Comment examines the phenomenon of prison gerrymandering, a practice that involves counting prisoners as residents of the counties where their state correctional facilities are located—rather than in their home communities—for redistricting and representational purposes. This practice of counting inflates the voting power of rural, white districts with large prison complexes and diminishes the voting power of minority communities. Prison gerrymandering has become especially pervasive across southern states while many of the South’s northern counterparts have eradicated this practice through legislative reform. This Comment proposes a solution to stop prison gerrymandering in the South, arguing a strategy to produce a …
Epic Fail: Harkenrider V. Hochul And New York's 2022 Misadventure In "Independent" Redistricting, Richard Briffault
Epic Fail: Harkenrider V. Hochul And New York's 2022 Misadventure In "Independent" Redistricting, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
In 2014, following passage in two successive legislatures, New York voters ratified amendments to the state constitution to change both the process and substantive rules governing the decennial redistricting of the state’s legislature and congressional delegation. The constitution now includes multiple new substantive requirements for districting plans, including a prohibition on the “draw[ing of] [districts] to discourage competition or for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring incumbents or other particular candidates or political parties.” It also directs the creation of an “Independent Redistricting Commission” (“IRC”) to draw up, for submission to the legislature, maps that, following an extensive process of …
Redistricting’S Ultimate Antidote, Douglas M. Spencer
Redistricting’S Ultimate Antidote, Douglas M. Spencer
Publications
No abstract provided.
Religious Gerrymandering: A New Avenue For Redistricting Challenges?, Jacqueline Rosen
Religious Gerrymandering: A New Avenue For Redistricting Challenges?, Jacqueline Rosen
Utah Law Student Scholarship
Recently, the Supreme Court significantly limited review of partisan gerrymandering claims, closing the door to a substantial portion of redistricting challenges. However, religious-based redistricting is an overlooked area that should be explored under both federal and state Constitutions. Existing redistricting standards can easily be applied to religious gerrymandering claims. In addition, the federal Establishment Clause may provide a basis for some especially egregious instances of religious gerrymandering. However, perhaps the least explored and most viable avenue for relief is through reliance on state constitutional protections, such as the unique language of Utah’s Constitution. Using Utah as a case study, I …
Making It Harder To Challenge Election Districting, Erwin Chemerinsky
Making It Harder To Challenge Election Districting, Erwin Chemerinsky
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
No abstract provided.
Race And Regulation Podcast Episode 4 - Creating An Inclusive National Politics, Guy-Uriel Charles
Race And Regulation Podcast Episode 4 - Creating An Inclusive National Politics, Guy-Uriel Charles
Penn Program on Regulation Podcasts
Throughout American history, racial inequality and political inequality have gone hand-in-hand. Building a truly representative democracy today and in the future will depend on ending racial discrimination in voting. In this episode, election law expert Guy-Uriel Charles of Harvard Law School argues that voting cannot be made a universal and fundamental right for all without nationalizing American election law and blocking states from adopting rules for redistricting and voting that exclude and disenfranchise minority voters. This episode is based on Prof. Charles’s 2021 Distinguished Lecture on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Countering Gerrymandered Courts, Jed H. Shugerman
Countering Gerrymandered Courts, Jed H. Shugerman
Faculty Scholarship
The key insight in Professor Miriam Seifter’s outstanding article Countermajoritarian Legislatures is that state legislatures are usually antidemocratic due to partisan gerrymandering, whereas state governors and judiciaries are insulated from gerrymandering by statewide elections (or selection), and thus they should have a more prominent role in framing election law and in enforcing the separation of powers.
This Piece offers a friendly amendment: These observations are true, so long as states do not gerrymander their state supreme courts into antidemocratic districts. The problem is that historically, judicial elections emerged generally as districted elections, and often with regional and partisan politics shaping …
Deregulated Redistricting, Travis Crum
Deregulated Redistricting, Travis Crum
Scholarship@WashULaw
From the civil rights movement through the Obama administration, each successive redistricting cycle involved ever-greater regulation of the mapmaking process. But in the past decade, the Supreme Court has re-written the ground rules for redistricting. For the first time in fifty years, Southern States will redistrict free of the preclearance process that long protected minorities from having their political power diminished. Political parties can now openly engage in egregious partisan gerrymandering.
The Court has withdrawn from the political thicket on every front except race. In so doing, the Court has engaged in decision-making that is both activist and restrained, but …
On The Ballot For Nov. 2, 2021: The Constitutional Amendment On Redistricting, Jeffrey M. Wice, Todd Breitbart
On The Ballot For Nov. 2, 2021: The Constitutional Amendment On Redistricting, Jeffrey M. Wice, Todd Breitbart
Redistricting Resources
On November 2, 2021, New York State voters will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment revising the redistricting process to be based on the 2020 census. If the constitutional amendment is approved, the changes will take effect on January 1, 2022. This amendment is necessary to address delays in the census created by the pandemic and to accommodate New York State’s change from a September primary to an earlier June primary for both federal and state elections. These changes compressed the time needed to complete the redistricting. Without these changes, it is possible that the new districts will not …
Summary Of New York State Redistricting Cases, Nicholas Stabile, Marissa Zanfardino
Summary Of New York State Redistricting Cases, Nicholas Stabile, Marissa Zanfardino
Redistricting Resources
This article contains summaries for all of the major redistricting cases in New York State. This article was created with assistance by Stephanie Hernandez, David Romero, and Scott Matsuda.
S.2670 U.S. Senate Redistricting Bill, Marissa Zanfardino
S.2670 U.S. Senate Redistricting Bill, Marissa Zanfardino
Redistricting Resources
This bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Charles E. Schumer on August 6, 2021 and its consideration was blocked by the Senate on August 11, 2021. It outlines national reform for redistricting.
Ranked-Choice Voting As Reprieve From The Court-Ordered Map, Benjamin P. Lempert
Ranked-Choice Voting As Reprieve From The Court-Ordered Map, Benjamin P. Lempert
Michigan Law Review
Thus far, legal debates about the rise of ranked-choice voting have centered on whether legislatures can lawfully adopt the practice. This Note turns attention to the courts and the question of remedies. It proposes that courts impose ranked-choice voting as a redistricting remedy. Ranked-choice voting allows courts to cure redistricting violations without also requiring that they draw copious numbers of districts, a process the Supreme Court has described as a “political thicket.” By keeping courts away from the fact-specific, often arbitrary judgments involved in redistricting, ranked-choice voting makes for the redistricting remedy that best protects the integrity of the judicial …
Political Redistricting In The Post-Rucho Era, Robert Fisch
Political Redistricting In The Post-Rucho Era, Robert Fisch
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
In January of 2011, the infamous “Snake by the Lake” was born.2 Stretching along the southern coast of Lake Erie, the 9th Congressional District of Ohio covers a 120 mile-long thin strip of the state.3 The district is less than one mile wide at certain locations and is considered contiguous, a state constitutional requirement for congressional districts,4 only because the “snake” passes through portions of Lake Erie.5 In creating the district, the Ohio Republican Party, the majority party in the state legislature at the time, drew the boundaries with the intent to limit the voting power of the Democrats in …
Models, Race, And The Law, Moon Duchin, Douglas M. Spencer
Models, Race, And The Law, Moon Duchin, Douglas M. Spencer
Publications
Capitalizing on recent advances in algorithmic sampling, The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights explores the implications of the long-standing conservative dream of certified race neutrality in redistricting. Computers seem promising because they are excellent at not taking race into account—but computers only do what you tell them to do, and the rest of the authors’ apparatus for measuring minority electoral opportunity failed every check of robustness and numerical stability that we applied. How many opportunity districts are there in the current Texas state House plan? Their methods can give any answer from thirty-four to fifty-one, depending on invisible settings. But …
Federalizing The Voting Rights Act, Travis Crum
Federalizing The Voting Rights Act, Travis Crum
Scholarship@WashULaw
In Presidential Control of Elections, Professor Lisa Marshall Manheim masterfully canvasses how “a president can affect the rules of elections that purport to hold him accountable” and thereby “undermine the democratic will and delegitimize the executive branch.” Bringing together insights from administrative law and election law, she categorizes how presidents exercise control over elections: priority setting through executive agencies, encouraging gridlock in independent agencies, and idiosyncratic exercise of their narrow grants of unilateral authority.
Manheim’s principal concern is an executive influencing elections to entrench themselves and their allies in power. Her prognosis for the future is steely-eyed, and she recognizes …
New York State's Congressional Delegation May Lose Two Members, Jeffrey M. Wice
New York State's Congressional Delegation May Lose Two Members, Jeffrey M. Wice
Redistricting Resources
According to a new report released on December 22, 2020 by Election Data Services, Inc. (EDS), New York State could lose up to two congressional districts after the official state population totals are announced in January. This article explores this possibility through 2020 Census data estimates.
Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated Exhibit Panels
Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! poster
"This What Gerrymandering Looks Like" display of West Virginia redistricting.
Mapping The New Senate, Assembly & Congressional Districts, Jeffrey M. Wice
Mapping The New Senate, Assembly & Congressional Districts, Jeffrey M. Wice
Redistricting Resources
New York State in 2021 must redraw the State’s senate, assembly and congressional districts. The process will be different from the process used to draw legislative and congressional district lines in the past. Previously, the State legislature redrew the districts for its own members and for the State’s congressional members. After years of efforts to reform a process seen as too self-interested, New York State voters in 2014 approved an amendment to the State constitution that created a new Redistricting Commission that will propose new district lines to the legislature. The legislature still gets the last word, but the commission …
The Consent Of The Governed, Carter A. Hanson
The Consent Of The Governed, Carter A. Hanson
Student Publications
The Consent of the Governed is a Kolbe Fellowship project investigating gerrymandering through the lens of mathematics, Supreme Court litigation, and the potential for redistricting reform. It was produced as a five-episode podcast during the summer of 2020; this paper is the transcription of the podcast script. The project begins with an analysis of the impact of gerrymandering on the composition of the current U.S. House of Representatives. It then investigates the arguments and stories of Supreme Court gerrymandering cases in the past twenty years within their political contexts, with a focus on the Court's reaction to different mathematical methods …
The Shaw Claim: The Rise And Fall Of Colorblind Jurisprudence, Molly P. Matter
The Shaw Claim: The Rise And Fall Of Colorblind Jurisprudence, Molly P. Matter
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Partisan Gerrymandering: Blurring The Line Between Law And Politics, Elizabeth M. Brama, Lauren E. Pockl, Samuel Louwagie
Partisan Gerrymandering: Blurring The Line Between Law And Politics, Elizabeth M. Brama, Lauren E. Pockl, Samuel Louwagie
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.