[EL] Breaking: Supreme Court, on 5-4 vote, holds partisan gerrymandering cases nonjusticiable

Thu Jun 27 09:06:47 PDT 2019

 I don’t think legislative offices turn away resident aliens who seek
assistance, for example, because they are not “constituents.”

"Children of citizens " would also have to be read out of the phrasing if
voting was the key criterion.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:04 PM Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu> wrote:

> I think the instinct – and I call it that, an instinct, not necessarily a
> thought-through position -- behind the statement is that anyone in your
> district is a constituent.  He certainly could have used “voters” or
> “eligible voters” or “citizens.”  I don’t think legislative offices turn
> away resident aliens who seek assistance, for example, because they are not
> “constituents.”
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> Best,
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> *From:* Trevor Potter [mailto:tpotter at capdale.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:57 AM
> *To:* Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu>
> *Cc:* Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Breaking: Supreme Court, on 5-4 vote, holds partisan
> gerrymandering cases nonjusticiable
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> How do you think he defines “ constituents”?
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> Trevor Potter
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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:34 PM, Pildes, Rick <
> rick.pildes at nyu.edu<mailto:rick.pildes at nyu.edu>> wrote:
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> In describing the one-person, one-vote doctrine, CJ Roberts says: “each
> representative must be accountable to (approximately) the same number of
> constituents (my emphasis).
>
> If states/localities ever do redistrict based on eligible voters rather
> than population, I am sure that line will be quoted extensively.
>
> Best,
> Rick
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> From: Law-election [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
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> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 10:58 AM
> To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
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> Subject: Re: [EL] Breaking: Supreme Court, on 5-4 vote, holds partisan
> gerrymandering cases nonjusticiable
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> I'm not sure that's even an option. District court already determined that
> Commerce had never offered other reasons, and remanded just to confirm that
> Commerce had general jurisdiction to run the Census. See pp 266-70.
> https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work/2019-01-15-574-Findings%20Of%20Fact.pdf
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> in short, wrote Judge Furman:
>
> Remand, meanwhile, is appropriate as well, in recognition of the fact that
> Congress delegated its authority over administration of the census to the
> Secretary of Commerce, not to this Court. That is not to say that
> Defendants can or would be able to remedy the defects in Secretary Ross’s
> decision that this Court has found in time for the 2020 census. But to the
> extent that a “remand” is even necessary to make clear that the Secretary
> of Commerce retains authority to make decisions about the census, so long
> as they are consistent with law and this Court’s Opinion, a remand is
> appropriate.
>
> The parties’ respective arguments for an alternative remedy are
> unpersuasive. For their part, Defendants contend that remand without
> vacatur is “the only potentially appropriate remedy.” Defs.’ Post-Trial Br.
> 83-85, ¶¶ 80-85. Putting aside whether such a remedy is consistent with the
> plain language of the APA, it is inappropriate here. Courts authorizing
> remand without vacatur have done so where the agency shows “at least a
> serious possibility that [it] will be able to substantiate its decision on
> remand” and that “the consequences of vacating may be quite disruptive.”
> Allied-Signal, Inc., 988 F.2d at 151. Defendants have done neither here.
> The problem with Secretary Ross’s decision was not that it was inadequately
> explained, but rather that it was substantively arbitrary and capricious
> and “not in accordance” with statutes that constrain his discretion. And as
> Plaintiffs correctly point out, “the Secretary has never suggested an
> alternative basis for his decision.” Pls.’ Proposed Conclusions ¶ 456.
> Notably, Defendants offer nothing more than a bare conclusory assertion
> that “there is a non-trivial likelihood that the agency will be able to
> state a valid legal basis for its decision” on remand. Defs.’ Post-Trial
> Br. 84, ¶ 83 (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted). Nothing in
> either the Administrative Record or the trial record even remotely suggests
> such a “likelihood.”
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:41 AM Rick Hasen <
> rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:
> Here’s the link to the opinion:
> https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-966_bq7c.pdf
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> Question is whether agency can come up with another explanation in time
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> From: Pamela S Karlan <pkarlan at stanford.edu<mailto:pkarlan at stanford.edu>>
> Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 7:38 AM
> To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
> Cc: Election Law Listserv <
> law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [EL] Breaking: Supreme Court, on 5-4 vote, holds partisan
> gerrymandering cases nonjusticiable
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> Census case got remanded on the grounds that the VRA enforcement rationale
> can’t support the decision to ask the citizenship question.
> Pam Karlan
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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Rick Hasen <
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