[EL] SCOTUS takes Alabama redistricting cases.

[Justin Levitt]

The more significant filings below, including the case's first trip up 
to SCOTUS, are (of course) collected here 
<http://redistricting.lls.edu/cases.php#AL>.

Justin

On 6/2/2014 7:29 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
> UPDATE: SCOTUSBlog page for 13-1138 
> <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alabama-democratic-conference-v-alabama/>; 
> opinion 
> <http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Ala_Legislative_Black_Caucus_v_Alabama_CASE_NO_212CV691_ThreeJudg>.
>
> SCOTUSBlog case page for 13-895 
> <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alabama-legislative-black-caucus-v-alabama/>;  
> (same opinion).
>
> On 6/2/14, 7:19 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>>
>>
>>     "Supreme Court to hear Ala. redistricting challenge"
>>     <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61943>
>>
>> Posted on June 2, 2014 7:13 am 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61943>by Rick Hasen 
>> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>>
>> AP 
>> <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_ALABAMA_REDISTRICTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>: 
>> "The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a challenge from 
>> Alabama Democrats who say a Republican-drawn legislative map 
>> intentionally packs black Democrats into a few voting districts, 
>> giving them too little influence in the Legislature."
>>
>> This will mark the first time since the /LULAC /decision that the 
>> Court will consider the unconstitutional racial gerrymandering cause 
>> of action.  The last significant look at that question was Easley v. 
>> Cromartie <http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/532/234/>, when 
>> Justice O'Connor, whose views were so central to this cause of 
>> action, was still on the Court. (In /Cromartie /Justice O'Connor 
>> joined the liberals in rejecting a racial gerrymandering claim, after 
>> a number of cases, beginning with Shaw v. Reno 
>> <http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2057233072475851470&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr>, 
>> where she recognized it but differed from the other Justices about 
>> how to prove it.)
>>
>> It will be interesting to see what the Chief and Justice Alito think 
>> about this.
>>
>> The grants were limited, as Marty Lederman explains:
>>
>>     Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama, No. 13-1138 (limited to
>>     question one --- Whether Alabama's effort to redraw the lines of
>>     each majority-black district to have the same black population as
>>     it would have using 2010 census data as applied to the former
>>     district lines, when combined with the state's new goal of
>>     significantly reducing population deviation among districts,
>>     amounted to an unconstitutional racial quota and racial
>>     gerrymandering that is subject to strict scrutiny and that was
>>     not justified by the putative interest of complying with the
>>     non-retrogression aspect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act;
>>     and whether these plaintiffs have standing to bring such a
>>     constitutional claim;), and
>>
>>     Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, No. 13-895 (limited
>>     to question two --- whether Alabama's legislative redistricting
>>     plans unconstitutionally classify black voters by race by
>>     intentionally packing them in districts designed to maintain
>>     supermajority percentages produced when 2010 census data are
>>     applied to the 2001 majority-black districts).
>>
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