[EL] North Carolina

[Ruth Greenwood]

Hey everyone,

Last year we (the Campaign Legal Center) released a report about state
claims to end partisan gerrymandering
<https://campaignlegal.org/document/clc-report-litigating-partisan-gerrymandering-claims-under-state-constitutions>
- it should be a useful resource for us all going forward.

Cheers
Ruth

*Ruth Greenwood*

Co-Director, Voting Rights & Redistricting

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM Douglas Johnson <djohnson at ndcresearch.com>
wrote:

> Very true. And what this ruling did is essentially  leave in place the
> rules as they were in place in 2011, so there's little reason to redraw the
> 2011 maps. There's a small change coming out of this ruling, as the
> *Vieth *and *Bandemer* mentions that partisan gerrymandering *could *be
> unconstitutional are now gone, but neither of those cases actually imposed
> any real  Federal limits or restrictions on the 2011 map-drawing.
>
> - Doug
>
> Douglas Johnson
> Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College
> douglas.johnson at cmc.edu
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:36 AM Levitt, Justin <justin.levitt at lls.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> One additional point: the NC state constitution prohibits redistricting *state
>> legislative* lines more than once in a decade, and there was *just*
>> litigation on that point, with a decision reaffirming the ban in
>> November of 2018 <http://redistricting.lls.edu/cases-NC.php#NCNAACP>.
>> There’s no similar prohibition in the NC state constitution – at least no
>> similar express prohibition – on redrawing congressional lines more than
>> once in a decade.  Michael McDonald and I had a 2007 wrapup of the relevant
>> state rules here
>> <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=986081>, and I
>> don’t think too many have changed.
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>> Justin
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>> *From:* Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> *On
>> Behalf Of *Rick Hasen
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 10:26 AM
>> *To:* Marty Lederman <Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu>; John Shockley
>> <shockley1894 at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
>> *Subject:* [EL] North Carolina
>>
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>>
>> [I changed the topic heading.]
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>> Don’t forget about pending cases in the state supreme court, with a
>> majority of Democrats, that is hearing a partisan gerrymandering case under
>> the state constitution.
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>>
>> *From: *Marty Lederman <Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu>
>> *Date: *Friday, June 28, 2019 at 10:08 AM
>> *To: *John Shockley <shockley1894 at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>, Election Law Listserv <
>> law-election at uci.edu>
>> *Subject: *Re: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/28/19
>>
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>> They "can" do so in the sense that no one will stop them--but they will
>> be acting unconstitutionally when they do.
>>
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>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:00 PM John Shockley <shockley1894 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Listserve:
>>
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>> I haven't read the gerrymandering decision, but am I correct that now
>> North Carolina Republicans can draw legislative districts to ensure
>> Republican control in perpetuity?  The Democratic Governor plays no role in
>> redistricting there.  The Republican-gerrymandered legislature can do
>> whatever it wants.  By packing Democrats into as few districts as possible,
>> can't they make sure that no matter how big a wave ever comes, they can be
>> sure of maintaining their control?  And they can keep doing it every ten
>> years (or possibly more often) as needed.  The same can happen in Texas and
>> wherever Republicans have their "trifecta." (For sure in states that allow
>> no initiative process).  Wisconsin would not be in that category, because
>> the Democratic Governor also plays a role in the process, and the
>> Republicans don't have a super-majority, although they have strong
>> dominance.
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>>
>> Am I basically correct that now North Carolina legislative elections are
>> basically pointless, except in the sense that they will be in and out
>> supermajorities depending upon how extreme they can distort the process?
>> There is no way Democrats could ever re-take the legislature. I suppose the
>> only way out would be for the state Supreme Court to declare the
>> gerrymandering unconstitutional under the state constitution, as happened
>> in Pennsylvania.  I'm guessing that the Supreme Court Republicans won't
>> intervene in state court interpretations of state constitutions on
>> gerrymandering, but I could be wrong here.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this seem like an accurate conclusion?
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>>
>> John Shockley
>>
>> Political Science, Retired
>>
>> Augsburg College
>>
>> Minneapolis, MN
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>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:45 PM Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
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>> Coming Next Week: #ELB Symposium on Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105841&c=E,1,vHnkYlq4aZ0V5L775oYiLjgM5f5UgU7vrfl_IfqwCy5I_tryZ-uxaVDWIsAMBtxz2dX6Q7UfeAtsMM_rhRkKuvoHGmR7Qn61xB6CEbqhaUixNjkKiEP04bVB&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:42 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105841&c=E,1,zeKS5pZomHiAc-yepZZxci1Gr6c_DKlxouEqmqIpuuByZAgyvV7vzaRgQ79fqyT3eSkkVKd_CaKgA9c0eyQsXKN5S1ILQWxM5VBxKtcLDz6VUTKLWpxO&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,AVnFKaR-_BSSa-lBLCCMNXwexEZdh34z7_Znonr8tfGD3BbNW0sZYQyM1cuct4KRp-Jo60pBHrgt88aCY1TXe2qmnqmQlJY0xjD53ZWJ2_tLis6na2HLx2c,&typo=1>
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>> This should be good.
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,dHkMEyDoOAvH_9G259ljQ5QnXJWdMs9Nju5U5ufl5VaGys0W-2W8pTxoSDDQ_yBVwZZkvN-YS6aNWlcLoBh85kzngTK3BqdYkyMXnGLssj8,&typo=1>
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>> “House Passes Election Security Package, With an Eye on Mitch McConnell”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105839&c=E,1,A7oRsRgTdvAISxfkvjBYNA_p1emDFOf_K1nVCXRGzPWNNeqxCwdZYbYQZthmF3arqNPwJNOfYJpsxWInV7T5k6epYJXZFP07chKBlwGPFGRB0KR3j9NRbz6thSQ,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:39 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105839&c=E,1,JPFPTjRtueSk2H4Vqrq315WRVEzvuVKcy5OC2xgpMtUierEEUndV4_Z_07md8nzhC2I2L-de5ZrzLup7753kNxY991yp0CfQOu84cGGM7jvupPqr8Nntwk-9&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,bvCF8VpUUmNyk-wIuJIBV7qsvNT9T4wNZ0kvyDKSCrMuf2e_y1Chykc42zgKmYu3iTBWK_5D_zDRbqwCQGVz2hIIXs0uTM1ncPjDHjnPW_EeaoVe&typo=1>
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>> NYT:
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/election-security-mitch-mcconnell.html>
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>> *The House on Thursday approved expansive election security legislation
>> that would mandate the use of backup paper ballots and postelection vote
>> audits to guard against potential foreign meddling, seeking to pressure
>> Senator Mitch McConnell to lift his blockade of election legislation in the
>> upper chamber. Timed to coincide with the July 4 holiday, the House bill
>> <https://rules.house.gov/bill/116/hr-2722>, which passed 225 to 184,
>> largely along party lines, is the first and most expansive in a blitz of
>> new measures that House Democrats say they will pass to address
>> vulnerabilities highlighted by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
>> His report concluded that Russia had conducted “sweeping and systematic”
>> interference
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-document.html?module=inline> in
>> the 2016 presidential election, and members of both parties fear that not
>> enough is being done to prevent that from happening again next year. Other
>> legislation could include a requirement that political campaigns report to
>> the F.B.I. any offer of assistance from a foreign power, new sanctions to
>> punish Russia and other foreign powers that interfere with the American
>> democratic processes, and bipartisan mandates for social media platforms
>> like Facebook to disclose the purchasers of political advertisements. But
>> with the Senate in Republican hands, Democrats have another, more immediate
>> target in mind: trying to shame Mr. McConnell, the majority leader, into
>> dropping his opposition to proposals — even bipartisan ones — and allowing
>> his chamber to consider measures to better protect the vote*
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,E-uNPI4PzLJP6nhXtilKW01Zeo7rYdcyf2Qo-G3T9mofyLfbO9jVgxgtX9S5KdsRlAwdYdLqECW23DSXtKB_YeKsFyDlkwPgad73rxY7vkRhFmRQGUQOybFpdF1d&typo=1>
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>> “Decision on gerrymandering brings new urgency to Democratic fight to win
>> state seats”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105837&c=E,1,6cDYa7ItfXEgC5rOJZlP6b5HUTEhuWY0uy2rrmDOzr3pLGrmW5OjSJCpMxoTj8rcaDbB8_WUHSDuVLgiWOXSHetYLRwQJISFkX3b53U9eN4,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:36 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105837&c=E,1,ThA0DHEGa1SOpoEwE8dQeqR2cPQa1QQ-VPdMftmvdtiz-KYlSkwGYLj6A2yMrz3unSUbQ8Y5Mld_phhRwAlaTnuNS3sSQ4_JwZL3DeR2bw,,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,ZEfYxkfT8Vys0VyFJ-uuz37jn6Ekdorm8mq6-fpqdBvt2LPpsqKDJAB970Z5ZkVdO2KfQWkG1tr5XTzl40WPvXlThItyXFMQP9brI2fvHSml&typo=1>
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>> WaPo reports.
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-white-house-hopefuls-decry-court-ruling-on-gerrymandering-vow-to-counter-it/2019/06/27/f0ee383e-98f8-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html?utm_term=.09a1e6c2406c>
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,kYxM0F4SnTLFjFJdSiTwYyBGLlykd7XNWP1Z-jiAHnTcPTVZUlh5lXOxJhUkEbINvecBaSNx-5J0LjlCa7vNQzVEYenxgBw1tKWIYgg1Dm8n94ae&typo=1>
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>> “Supreme Court’s approval of partisan gerrymandering raises 2020 election
>> stakes”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105835&c=E,1,sqtq_Hb8THwhVHASO0T63DWeZURV6ZlB9RqSS810yIs7y0Z8zzrpBxad2Fcmi-bqatTJug9L1-OsKUKtMC5JNzsgeNaUtUxbUx4a_Xunp0KIxkNUtA7Q&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:32 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105835&c=E,1,4_un-HulPMzhAgNyDUgrFpCuF4awxUjz6jx3kK89FsQZOHZ1NmAt1Z4tZRtDVT2FY-nY5NHPn7YUnYMegz4hkBfuXT3DQvVRzrMpuG_ZLMkH_lN3Gm-O-fkiY8s,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,rfbRIHiqWDd72TPYJwuHC1bxLVLfum6nnv6ns-YVYubjcbH3S04XNIuAud-eKZt4cOcji54Mcc9cyS_4Xf_JxINdUdo_zVRei4hDFsEUl9LT8yfmxbxj&typo=1>
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>> LAT reports.
>> <https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-supreme-court-partisan-gerrymandering-republicans-20190627-story.html>
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,1_5iFYP22-ANz6CF9ApMCbKW21pEBxf_1NktYtMeWlVxO0fAROmbBXi_RasneAotdPyKl1paypc0AgZY6fzcQfVybD4unvgcDaOB9pbRnBmtjCXsXfHvRl4n&typo=1>
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>> Roundup of News and Commentary on Census Citizenship Decision
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105833&c=E,1,8F8yBBwTwDEsj5nRuWD5Wbzj0qxFyYqPVT55tMG8d-bD7ofQZewegaZyBYfe3wlOka9Gi2oTnc4NAl1R57pxFqwaLU7IvD1xB07TcXFlGThIiJg,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:30 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105833&c=E,1,fDa59qzg3YCtyFNLp5hWs4s1tI8wu-KGCgyv0ek5nMqX7hRD2IUiWNA9qCdm4Fayh52dNWHpz6-3WNZbU5xBoyHxr2RuKg6PPyk8GkjZUYLZIc36LhJu51QA&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,xtJ0JtD2AH2rEMyLaI_sI76kJ3eO3YFyXLYtYHIr8GJPnOgd-4PyBOJH5f-vqWYDLFQgDYnkZpnPi5xztHdKlli_MlWVeni2cxnyo-hLA8n_sKlO&typo=1>
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>> Here
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fhowappealing.abovethelaw.com%2f2019%2f06%2f27%2f%2395549&c=E,1,9QdQ2NF-ItHTfCeIbKRYkGabHM3MoAtufO2TaIdRfH612iF1mImT6FZWwffyQvGq0naIvdBZyWp3khOAW28geL4EmbF_cTjy9taUY2NWsna81azCANYaB61E&typo=1> at
>> Howard.
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>> Posted in census litigation
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d125&c=E,1,x8DzMWHFu_55qssRVgkI03qcrL56VrfETQHCM0Mg1jFfPY9JK9cuLvL2sx4IDeVJHOGbkHKbI0d51D1xHfE8jPBhc5WWbcu34tf02qYM&typo=1>
>> , Supreme Court
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d29&c=E,1,WFgRCD-HsBjELo8D4j5iXuFlSB5Z4drWP-6JxwSzwa3W_7zE-hvNwwCDxP268n3OJ_6y5RN1rnZOEhN-NbZFkCxrBbBKuViBQ5-CAv1CmRbVSue350I,&typo=1>
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>> Crum: “Rucho and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105831&c=E,1,OeRGawevCYjJP4v_wFV0B-mcjNwAuSLaz802LPiKeblIlA45lYrrI6rTYgvQk8Yd0SuqJqU_dLbbRy5cucAVVGWVDPjS1vyfum4GOb-_zj4McJ7FUtU,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 4:18 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105831&c=E,1,at0Ikz28BVseeUxMB6_2DE4ErCXDteOaabnoTODWOVILYniA7gyXhEfm4w5Ge1gipixd1O9HX6mT9dBgIPbgwFNM7TVzRLHK8Yua6MsZVQXC3lf4ig,,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,1cTt-E5LxUWBAzdO0xbSj0JwtPSZ0M7fHzMlpt0zRZBuTEPQ8OTaEdI6Opp1XpY7SSiR4fHV7Tqjhav1bQj1rcZOMZ1tUy9AIrJF7mb7zktbgcI,&typo=1>
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>> The following is a guest post from Travis Crum
>> <https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/crum>:
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>> *In Rucho v. Common Cause
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.supremecourt.gov%2fopinions%2f18pdf%2f18-422_9ol1.pdf&c=E,1,MDH9oOtqZp5k5JAk3DI9jQXo3wQiKqyVVaKCTrPujUaRZoHBilgRvWxCC23QVJZNzYAxgbulIcAAU_UL95_JpFqy5sPvQX6f6UUzCVHNSS25TgNE1MFqnNA,&typo=1>,
>> the conservatives on the Supreme Court finally prevailed on their
>> decades-long effort to declare partisan gerrymandering a non-justiciable
>> political question. Rather than add to the legion of voices condemning *
>> *Rucho** on its own terms, I want to focus on its worrisome implications
>> for racial vote-dilution claims and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.*
>>
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>> * The **Rucho** Court condemned partisan gerrymandering claims for
>> “invariably sound[ing] in a desire for proportional representation.” In so
>> doing, the Court cited a racial vote-dilution case—the plurality opinion
>> in City of Mobile v. Bolden
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupremecourt%2ftext%2f446%2f55&c=E,1,ROzW2pSPkbCN6Bur0P-LLnFSlEKGMxa6hwn1EyGC4G0HmT4hrYjV6q4VBhq1PsAfdAZpN3JGIuLxPF8128Km2NLmRVQTi5xzrNalRfBgWQg,&typo=1>—for
>> the proposition that proportional representation is not mandated by the
>> Equal Protection Clause. Building off this point, the Court turned to the
>> question of fashioning a judicially manageable standard for apportioning
>> political power in the context of partisan gerrymandering. The Court
>> observed that “it is not even clear what fairness looks like” and proceeded
>> to identify numerous visions of “fair” representation, from competitive
>> districts to an “‘appropriate’ share of ‘safe’ seats” to maps based on
>> traditional redistricting criteria.*
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>> * Now, if this argument sounds familiar, that’s because it mirrors the
>> long-running debate between scholars like Sam Issacharoff and Rick Pildes
>> <https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1229320.pdf> who advocate the creation of
>> competitive districts and academics like Heather Gerken
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fpdfs.semanticscholar.org%2f02a5%2f071a7e3dc874e2cd3e263cb6f3c621f22500.pdf&c=E,1,Nej1pZOPBuUso19X7skIduXhQVAG7Y7A1u8debQnfVybiJGtaOtx4rFFXhc6nuWteunXewCRr07WAa1RCYKWU_3TrE9BKOQobql5zxVgqCmfm-vL&typo=1>, Michael
>> Kang
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yalelawjournal.org%2farticle%2frace-and-democratic-contestation&c=E,1,so_MPa7VtUHjRiR1x2ID3v62hNADRJnWj8b7g6Vy6Xq7N8Y5-TUeoFA3mP7u-xuVUGr19iGu7Bk3j8fpbALS4E9Achlaupr5FXKXcmh2h09-iXcPkCthE1Ay&typo=1>,
>> and Pam Karlan
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fscholarship.law.wm.edu%2fcgi%2fviewcontent.cgi%3farticle%3d1605%26context%3dwmlr&c=E,1,Zede4SbAm_NP5S9N0rVdFgKgJx_hT9C6Xg-njrl_FGWtwwRXlTmtuANNVy3GgGjbruK-USFdyEt-kChoO5j4PH8jc3uJcHPztG_u6Yb6xxY,&typo=1> who
>> are far more comfortable with race-conscious redistricting. What’s
>> troubling about **Rucho**’s logic is that it outlines an analogous
>> debate and then throws its hands up and says there’s no judicially
>> manageable standard. In this way, **Rucho** channels concerns similar to
>> those articulated in Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion in Holder v. Hall
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupct%2fhtml%2f91-2012.ZC1.html&c=E,1,QAyu-_FEoRQ3M9wMxNbkRaD13kBqpI-M0D1twa-Ny7a8608nO0CpLiuEO6nU0sSOm_VlrVVKPBaADzclMHdD_Fbn4pm6TpXrt-x4aGF_JBe6vd8,&typo=1>,
>> where he criticized Section 2 for lacking a legitimate and manageable
>> benchmark.*
>>
>>
>> * And therein lies **Rucho**’s relevance to the VRA. To be sure, Section
>> 2 expressly disclaims a right to proportional representation, but ever
>> since Johnson v. De Grandy
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupct%2fhtml%2f92-519.ZS.html&c=E,1,YRqtMH9U8PGHBigL6BOYVY-aNZgdOZXSzl4muWHsIq0_PLmkemg93OF45mwNz51DCICrAUfNdEZh1QWM3QnYZZe-W3hGwmuCnDVJpbOiBw,,&typo=1>,
>> the Court has made “rough proportionality” a central part of Section 2’s
>> totality-of-the-circumstances inquiry. Given this, **Rucho**’s criticism
>> of proportionality standards should be a warning sign for Section 2’s
>> constitutionality, especially when combined with the Roberts Court’s
>> colorblind instincts and its outright hostility to race-conscious
>> redistricting.*
>>
>>
>> * If you think I’ve stared at the tea leaves for too long, consider the
>> ways the **Rucho** Court deployed and distinguished other election-law
>> precedents. The Court greenlit Reynolds’s
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupremecourt%2ftext%2f377%2f533&c=E,1,oIR_v8a8ywsG8XpitaVcByo3U6pwKtdYXdowlNfIkGJwJ5KCqrPVeq39PM9xqMviF6tt7axE0Ve5GTHEpuWVsJ9CiNdmyFMnIp9t3M15Gfrol6BQ&typo=1> one-person,
>> one-vote principle as “relatively easy to administer as a matter of math.”
>> As for the Shaw
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupct%2fhtml%2f92-357.ZS.html&c=E,1,umXCHtn_rGp4Wq8O-MxqGrwB4lpII0sfERivZ70v14O9Od6RXPBAnUJdIqdGUdIJAzD6BTHENB2WdTs6M5j5EOSlnVZMcDS0FyMYhMsh4A,,&typo=1> line
>> of cases, the Court observed that racial gerrymandering claims seek the
>> “elimination of a racial classification” and “do[] not ask for a share of
>> political power and influence, with all the justiciability conundrums that
>> entails.” Put simply, the Court went out of its way to preserve those
>> precedents—indeed, with a rationale for **Shaw** that is at
>> cross-purposes with Section 2—but only invoked a racial vote-dilution case
>> as a sword to undercut a claim for proportional representation.*
>>
>>
>> * To be clear, I’m not predicting that the Court is going to determine
>> that racial vote-dilution claims are non-justiciable political
>> questions—such a holding wouldn’t make much sense for a variety of reasons.
>> Rather, my point is that the Court’s intuitions tend to sublimate across
>> numerous doctrinal contexts.*
>>
>>
>> * Thus, in defending Section 2’s constitutionality, civil rights
>> advocates and the academy should emphasize that proportionality is just one
>> factor in a Section 2 case and that the touchstone is **rough** proportionality,
>> not perfect proportionality. The Gingles
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.law.cornell.edu%2fsupremecourt%2ftext%2f478%2f30&c=E,1,Cntji_vgyr8Ls8A7Jrhmo4vFolrsf1ElQp566zxltXBBWUYBZxXE_txhsA-KmaFv1qdbdnVSObfnpJ7MJLGirsi4ZZJOxq--Enjt2MJrdmWloTrG8w,,&typo=1> factors,
>> moreover, have functioned as an effective gatekeeping mechanism and a de
>> facto sunset provision for Section 2, thus limiting the situations where
>> proportionality concerns even enter the equation. And, of course, the Court
>> has long viewed Congress’s Reconstruction Amendment enforcement authority
>> to be at its zenith when seeking to remedy and deter racial discrimination
>> in voting. Race was not directly at issue in **Rucho**, and for the
>> plaintiffs to have prevailed, the Court would have had fashion its own
>> standard for adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims without
>> congressional guidance.*
>>
>>
>> * The Court’s decision in **Rucho **will have profound and disastrous
>> implications for the 2020 redistricting cycle and beyond. But it may also
>> foreshadow the endgame for Section 2.*
>>
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>> Posted in redistricting
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d6&c=E,1,4bRCcWXVwSEA1hO7Ek96C7wFAn_cTlarmrXEcnCpNuBRkF0hSncL28Xnqi5yl4WQRH-oOzFPZC_O4Kt5CiEASwPxWnBcwnRPmnNZH8P9Qg,,&typo=1>
>> , Supreme Court
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d29&c=E,1,SpUrQdWO-FDpWCenxU_NK2wrG64KOwHwrwPbSiM5M385wnyhFS_4nnMTdKd-SlE98HMm9KMKuYLhQDz1_WOgZ0VxBmHWgo0kPNUli2raJA,,&typo=1>
>> , Voting Rights Act
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d15&c=E,1,3phP5DQLxfnZ8aH7xNsCxtE-cKAZXgtAw2guu-Bt8hxUwfQN0xIMggd54QQ6EcKH_6vwXtk8DOvfcOFENM54BIv5E35gro7Cm2yabAAhznkGiRZw7SJZZg,,&typo=1>
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>> “Judge Wants To Know By Monday If Gov’t Will Fold On Census Citizenship
>> Fight”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105829&c=E,1,T-gbk8W93FdEYFRdubeE7TJESvJil7ou5Bebb6-IObn2BdTIhaOdx2K8o1hoGRHfAilla6QSmtWjUublOMAT1_-4R25Dmy9JNxPy-9qev7VS&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 4:11 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105829&c=E,1,CYzo7FTiScsfTVfaAv83n3Ez6oAielMP0wu09pLufEOX0XrqAkrcw69BLb_xf59tUcaDfPVjWoBwPg6zIWSDNt29pY812rA5pDJW1WfGBon8RTH5ebYJ&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,J2w4_aKkUwNmiNpiEF-e1-qpAIMDFiwVKRzVDA6MRhJSRd6fq220A2ktM_Gy4Q7YOnniwx4WUXM2UuaCHQmOMjjNzIbZl4OV9jomzFEcF5X9YvMRaZjACAzZ&typo=1>
>>
>> TPM
>> <https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/judge-wants-to-know-by-monday-if-govt-will-fold-on-census-citizenship-fight>
>> :
>>
>>
>>
>> *If the Trump administration does not want another round of discovery
>> into whether its census citizenship question was discriminatory, it has
>> until Monday to tell the judge who is currently considering the claim that
>> it is backing down from trying to add the question. That is according to
>> Denise Hulett, a lawyer for the Mexican American Legal Defense and
>> Educational Fund, who was on teleconference hearing that U.S. District
>> Judge George Hazel held Thursday afternoon with the parties in the census
>> citizenship case in Maryland. A second source with knowledge of the call
>> also gave TPM that read out.*
>>
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>>
>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,jsaDVUSa5RBLVO8m4aK8cMzCZS0ZCCa5qTy7V95jVHpIxRfH_t1DGnLUu2N6k4vExK5gWs55hgVb0HFbsrHSFSVQ87jOeshMBfhJqokHSndJfG9COu2WDmd7wqsx&typo=1>
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>> Quote of the Day
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105827&c=E,1,Gpc6k7cqF9_cDYhdiY9r8F8UyJSIZS50BuDpRk5F9Gr7aWbsXlrPgEMi6E-eF2lhlWh1uC2au3RPXZph2JEgAprfxOP4_1dPd9lBWqoond9FcfneFfWoOA,,&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 4:02 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105827&c=E,1,RVLErBf-fFvqZ2b87x2_MquE5MkCpoDq4BkUm1CFg34QO2xEVxUmfm8bg0ap0p1nG9U7d8vzK9KRCI0Ls7ieigqupNbOUM4fDuynSuWk&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,36DvayKJkF4U4DsVFlNl11Xym6GzVdzgpkpih3ovfR98lSyzvwp2VJzVhEUQ1eTuwewnX69GWB9QeKnzLEOIn11nIhSMulhzax7aVb3odS0,&typo=1>
>>
>> “We are in Mad Max territory now, there are no rules.”
>>
>> –Justin Levitt to NPR
>> <https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/731847977/supreme-court-rules-partisan-gerrymandering-is-beyond-the-reach-of-federal-court?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com>,
>> “Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal
>> Courts.”
>>
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>>
>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,ZAtbQ4E3bsdmYbPBt1F9i1o4hQ89FLGfXF6t_abcBwO3tfleZJ4XW6HGfMmyYc4mZY434hPtZrixplrLePd6SCeXhqg72ZOUywJtWFDPULUlWjw,&typo=1>
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>>
>> “Judge Dismisses Effort To Accelerate Special Election For Arizona’s U.S.
>> Senate Seat”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105825&c=E,1,5soSceKnZrDXKzfXpD9JZs2TQ1EqtMCkNZ8vbsqqEtovMvs_eiedXfRkT3znzoZ4AkuBdrz3ojGLNPQ-ctZy_eGOj3KUEeCrhHxj1u1ty-KWXD_k9Re234m4Snj-&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 3:59 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105825&c=E,1,gWuNFfUpFAknE9Te_RM6gUwVIl-WMImeKWWuRZysD0ccYhfC6PCCV-SZ-IE0hFhuoZs2VbeFiykAL-9QR3qe9gHwUF_qMJTIhzel7NXfXw,,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,ZVMu2TYxbdsbsiLpu3S7Z-7nRwmHoTwMk1wDxAzP7t5-Rf0U3bszcTLfzFwnMjPgzB2Lt6gowwvQ1QJ3DKHDWqbyZMkAMDxLhaDtfGqCx-lHUTo3OmslJWRefhp9&typo=1>
>>
>> Arizona’s Law reports.
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2farizonaslaw.blogspot.com%2f2019%2f06%2fbreaking-judge-dismisses-effort-to.html&c=E,1,-amoY88nt389ECnF-fQPE-lfZ2y8vO7MZgZyjl1WiRahhYXFKObaWebtyWSjsEKJcT7R7DlvPbOta4D-BhsNnjAB1lyQXPuRx0KkXeLQnTynWrlCj-1b&typo=1>
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>>
>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,1X7tmyvg0RUWTvQrGfD8c6EHTvhpi3ty1B1dwq61A4x_2xX6vHe5DcJgSC-vxrCvxdaS84rbjcea0nMQEUNgNqJCrBN5EEQJ4OMX5ecD8SU,&typo=1>
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>>
>> “The Supreme Court’s Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering Will Drag It
>> Down Further Into the Mud”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105823&c=E,1,pkBQ0_leJcAZPMowkh3TkpXsHEvkXSsZoUIBbw6uKPURKk2GY7nMWp4uY4g6K5BUqku6JKc3FA_KAPXsJIpKxfBsRa3zywRvLY0l3MPaWR8-zq4Mh2u6WxKtVyE,&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 3:30 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105823&c=E,1,n6-WCMbBOlLyURAR3Ezw9hMFX2TQrMCl94cHdnKLfUPQ2ooHufr1bgUeSLtwjv7jBSFzJ09WmiYFxLbGOfRAOHAy9I9GLkdHh5vzmW_1hTlmWAPrDUFBNdeYmA,,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,TSJqxdxkBMd6GIliFEBY7Ws3cGCnvj5xYme0xcRxzaUyTOBpO7txY51BRmxb_yXpBJII6KuvP2vPp0EpVezh2h5yECgMD8WyFxG_u9yqpGBc&typo=1>
>>
>> I have written this oped
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/opinion/gerrymandering-rucho-supreme-court.html>for
>> the *New York Times*. It begins:
>>
>>
>>
>> *The Supreme Court decision on Thursday in Rucho v. Common Cause
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.supremecourt.gov%2fopinions%2f18pdf%2f18-422_9ol1.pdf&c=E,1,dTVVAjxDnFckV_NYpH_JYcZcqM6Psjn4-oIC7Zp7gaOBlBMYCVDDSkr-8CT1dy7rx0LvnLo4-pnNHAzVl73QkLCuLgICNfSm_7KS1MFDuPUyAtzHb0I,&typo=1> purports
>> to take federal courts out of the business of policingpartisan gerrymanders
>> and leave the issue for states to handle. But the decision will instead
>> push federal courts further into the political thicket, and, in states with
>> substantial minority voter populations, force courts to make logically
>> impossible determinations
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fscholarship.law.wm.edu%2fcgi%2fviewcontent.cgi%3freferer%3dhttps%3a%2f%2fwww.google.com%2f%26httpsredir%3d1%26article%3d3754%26context%3dwmlr&c=E,1,VlWJQ7j0-G9fTtPdpbkDAyGUz_M15ahetriMGRkTieMBsXk1P2eM6MBeVXP8HdI6Tq8z67qnsFcbrnDF7mss4rIJeMLi7R8xyTLTL1FCUb7qRjey5KmlO23fmw,,&typo=1> about
>> whether racial reasons or partisan motives predominate when a party
>> gerrymanders for political advantage. It didn’t have to be this way. …*
>>
>> *Second, we are in an era of hyperpartisanship, when a politician pays no
>> political consequences (and indeed gets rewarded) for publicly declaring a
>> partisan purpose. Indeed, Rucho involved a Republican gerrymander of North
>> Carolina’s 13 congressional districts, and David Lewis, one of the
>> Republican legislative leaders, said in 2016
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court.html?module=inline> that
>> even though the state was about evenly divided between the parties, he was
>> proposing a map drawn with the aim of electing 10 Republicans and three
>> Democrats — and that was only because he didn’t “believe it was possible to
>> draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.”*
>>
>>
>>
>> * Mr. Lewis’s conduct will now become de rigueur, not only because naked
>> partisanship has been approved by the court, but because his outrageous
>> comment gave him legal cover for the gerrymander. North Carolina was forced
>> to redistrict in 2016 because the Supreme Court found its earlier
>> congressional map to be a racial gerrymander. Since 1993, the Supreme Court
>> has held that making race the predominant factor in drawing district lines
>> without a compelling reason for doing so violates the equal protection
>> clause of the 14th Amendment. By so openly declaring he was engaged in
>> partisan politics, Mr. Lewis was trying to prove that race did not drive
>> the North Carolina General Assembly’s decisions.’ The entire exercise is
>> nonsensical
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fharvardlawreview.org%2f2014%2f01%2frace-or-party-how-courts-should-think-about-republican-efforts-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-in-north-carolina-and-elsewhere%2f&c=E,1,MXqAbThAT565aK8Db50ytOybKqR6pa1n6O7qEIesXso_F-3gKfxCtguZBce1-lJE1mMp2U3D3c0nSF1I0YzGbR3Mp7bN1LRK20Ihuq9xMMMAK3hUqrD9A-hvq3xw&typo=1> in
>> a place like North Carolina, where about 90 percent of African-American
>> voters support Democratic candidates and about two-thirds of white voters
>> support Republicans. One cannot discriminate against Democrats without
>> discriminating against African-Americans in North Carolina, and vice versa.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * So we know what we can expect in North Carolina in 2021, if Republicans
>> still control the legislative branch and thus redistricting (in that state,
>> the governor, who now is a Democrat, plays no role in approving the plans).
>> Republicans will use sophisticated technology to draw a very effective
>> partisan gerrymander. They might even keep redrawing lines every few years
>> to keep their advantage. They will proclaim loudly and often that their
>> purpose is to help the Republican Party. They will all be instructed not to
>> talk about race. Democrats and minority voting advocates will sue in
>> federal court and claim that this is a racial gerrymander in disguise. And
>> federal courts will have to figure out whether it was race or party that
>> motivated the decision of the state’s Legislature.*
>>
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>>
>> Posted in redistricting
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d6&c=E,1,PYxLeTopOLggJItBCT67BpFled-_6uvIANQ0DKdCfk-44jz4SKjBkqwy5gRJelfmcX2mt7QmTijjogEtC9nGVq4AuUPVgP6zU5VqW3_g&typo=1>
>> , Supreme Court
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d29&c=E,1,ZSvFRpzRmTx-QEwlqj06qRs11UJXIe7yFgexNa5ZGJZCVemq8xO-T3-jeZyfoStPMAdHowkRxIRwftV2O3eNaKTMWPUBP69TTF9igvlfd7nNmp3EKqtqXXAMOSU,&typo=1>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> “What do redistricting advocates do now?”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105821&c=E,1,eDF5aHobYEAIIZ8kmPI_tLYcsThQuYNc4436alVRh02zdpqh02OTl-T5uKorhbhUJKobxAUHuSL2kHjuVyCS4nPydzoBfUk9allsm4W8h1llqJer&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 2:42 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105821&c=E,1,88XNlFXdvRGRxOufHB0Mko9H6NK3TnrGsXcIZdcceQMM2PrOvn2VeBR3xxvSauQge1Qo4zjXqFq7bgr_QhoRBenv1y7-2d24nNzH43Ma&typo=1>
>>  by *Richard Pildes*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d7&c=E,1,mHTgIY_sHsBpuL0TSEG3Ce9GeHlFnvlXrbV7ZSH5vN5WeJk7LesA154mjV2PvyUkB0Pp47H4L_UhtWXOAau0uUJa1rl2tYBdI6JU7uVt5ZHvbiE,&typo=1>
>>
>> From this
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/27/what-do-redistricting-advocates-do-now/?utm_term=.a9bef0b8160f> Washington
>> Post piece by Amber Phillips:
>>
>> *That’s what redistricting advocates in North Carolina plan to do next.
>> “North Carolina can’t force redistricting reform on its legislature, but it
>> can take it to the state courts, and we will go to the state courts,” said
>> Allison Riggs, senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for
>> Social Justice, which argued the North Carolina redistricting case at the
>> Supreme Court.*
>>
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
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>> “The Supreme Court just body-slammed democracy. More is coming.”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105819&c=E,1,50TOxZ4JS1EEgSloubEI06r-K2yVMGNwZ0PSPHEJ1dRu9XScTiMypntawzZbQV5nZuXup7BE9uca9gMspIHxm-n1KnHuC7I8iPksonVBXw,,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 1:16 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105819&c=E,1,FmzQ2hrKhKCLL6TKrzO89jHEoLo9mUC5jjxsXMllWczQvVNg8OJIDG6lcGBZ0bvZw1VcmXYiZfJUKw3UHBoGzaO8alR9sgKBvcL8MvtJTrhEVDKMfgeE56BaO4a0&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,M2XfHX7vhDrfbmr4KDGhqmTvZA5y2KjbZbs7x8hUV-UX-KcQ8sbdccsE-s2TzY-6ASdw0mKSg1HHiVQFCQHMtQatcAUMXo83AhSSF3eiZJISTzyxMKHp5EOEbg,,&typo=1>
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>> Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent for WaPo.
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/27/supreme-court-just-body-slammed-democracy-this-is-only-beginning/?utm_term=.6552cb1deb58>
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>> Posted in Supreme Court
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>> “Chief Justice Roberts’s ‘proportional representation’ error”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105817&c=E,1,NL84-Ccyg41zCWXJ0hzwqDYaz-7VbbOBtK7StIep5JwY6r5VBy7j8h5kfCgLhw5DJfTayEDXr8rNtJl44KJUA6kKvt2i47qwKLVWJXqLGT90&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 1:14 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105817&c=E,1,UrdyOT2cUhf0E9014lLe0x8O_omq8LBRXaUU_x43PX4ULoehm_Mw1Oel0uag-C7UADKWhx9IPmcfybNLSUbBh9QE1wL0zspuozw5TEdRZnYJx5W5vgH4WSx8PrE,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,rKNOAXZ7nwr5XZUmTzXjwajU9aCMxPQJ2l6jfidjlOP5gnDfP1Uslm7A4EU5-iEsO723phz5cTD8r315rU5W31lRYDyxCB6Jm9imgfHlzgMtGq9cfXGo7fc,&typo=1>
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>> Sam Wang blogs.
>> <http://election.princeton.edu/2019/06/27/chief-justice-robertss-proportional-representation-dodge/>
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>> Posted in redistricting
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d6&c=E,1,p9l_tYs-NBGF9j6QkERaS_E2hymD4giGzYuhxI2hkZ9F761NyMzaBiGFD9jT-uMeKZ8k4YAhVprS7JvDIjBZch8mbSpRGNG4MfzHtNYyUA,,&typo=1>
>> , Supreme Court
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d29&c=E,1,-Q941_l2M6SqW2iSPdAk8M8obkheyIVMt81pzNytyJ71usCiUjDSokUaHkcz0XViH1Nfep9nCMr-WZbBrH07Tg5nXnEWH3BIdbDLqG9vt00bFpqbTUndOEo,&typo=1>
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>> “When You Use Campaign Funds To Pay For Your Pet Rabbit’s Trip, You’re
>> Doing It Wrong”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105815&c=E,1,feabvgy40TNkqI96GpvTComxyIUfl6ysNni4bN4t_AF6MdMLhP4D6U1Su0_CvujTiPSxsgkacwYH5k3ADqgcohs63os6vr355uxOrWoHhvU3UAiOG_o,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 1:11 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105815&c=E,1,uVTFtc6tTO7eLHMwA-9E0GGzyCltrDuBgXAlE2wo98fssVr8VrKjEqAH6PCh-WMG_M8HQ3mJD3NQR9r5wFM6SvVeJGHws2pGFykomyU8Xuq1OJaVCw,,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,QwKXyadepOh_gysYT5RJz_v9eWWXgvqOpmFf2-qPMWvvKCVRK2dDR1tWN9dl4yX6JdnoeKGFSFFPJ_84p54SkbbEGHyOdTN1yh-HKf2add3bRT4MqQKKIWhE&typo=1>
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>> Ciara Torres Spelliscy
>> <https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/when-you-use-campaign-funds-to-pay-for-your-pet-rabbits-trip-youre-doing-it-wrong> for
>> TPM.
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>> Posted in campaign finance
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d10&c=E,1,-IWtMBpYYeH1JdzfNIAf1m3rU0kRFNpcVq_Zou3DqeD8nhXwuFQYXqbTCUMgnZr8oY9JfNwMCggwJVgfW1INMM6AbXc4CMdWsPonSm6p3y7HswczSYYkTb4taMM,&typo=1>
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>> “How’s This for a Radical Campaign-Finance Proposal? Follow the Existing
>> Rules.”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105813&c=E,1,-wnGsHFIxXrhf3XATnEuGG3syTFiDudfYecATJJ_jlbQLU6AZrsML_fLhmiZ2aRIzUsgaFtOmyi-BzX2OABXycwTL0z50jAijdvsTsx68jRG0A,,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 1:06 pm
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105813&c=E,1,J60uH-RZ7lm_mYwnVI4-zigmOA_FkFPQI-uoS-1v837U10XR_gfFtD4Q9IkvnzOBp_SbRvwTzW9fi5fp1mOy8TMnIxxnPHm0Zm_S65McG9x3BItq26U,&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,1otlu377jUyfPohdXJpbZxWmyePp08mwPd391bQV2ugcMfMnW5_VL77w2pmi0CyIPXt1Fl4UXvVz8od4LRLTvp_KK52ZBjWynGNTkrSEUPtwVAkTze4UDcqQw4Y,&typo=1>
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>> Eliza Newlin Carney writes.
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fprospect.org%2farticle%2fhows-radical-campaign-finance-proposal-follow-existing-rules&c=E,1,z_-kzmaZvDjZ2O2clcms8ShFqyTKveO6E0zKR6HewVoXSWQNQY7gXHNUvJVTe2elIav4zh8kzQPV1alU8YxpfIE8J4oTP80z1LCRApt4yIY5DQ27SaSj1g,,&typo=1>
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>> Posted in campaign finance
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d10&c=E,1,dw1Kvq4VKnjcj6_8qcy31INlqVp5T4UFfq5pmPVRqVT6UGJ6zsepiEI1vsTBT8RtxsYBpnFZTj8nbnJcF-zpmFl5TWEUQsHsKUyq3nlJ1y3JvKgEwVs18K4HSvUH&typo=1>
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>> President Trump Tweets Indicate that Battle Over Citizenship Question on
>> the Census is NOT Over
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105809&c=E,1,JWUwRQhc5vX7iEJuCsHpoi6jWNlm9xQFGN0L9INNMtDy0r0NAIlMUq6pgPyeqXFfNMsIOo5PznJN6VNS8AZa3rHLNFlSGCCaSkHfSnWfiw,,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 10:56 am
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105809&c=E,1,0gL1pfhr09Xnnql9fJXq4j_k2ERCdyZXNGNC9uV4vTZHbTFjySWlQNItVPuKpnyFEr1Mu8jk02ozQwSriP-i8qb9gPaEwwif7oRrNWY5W2bZIxfnXidh&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,zae0rbFvKwqDvjTHErS7-gOZbIIXs_Rw2LN3VAxYdIxYgCX-0zC446HzgewSjJghpd411x2moQddyk_KPDQYfXwA0RsEv_sCL5NWs8kbfgDzLac-UDHFeA,,&typo=1>
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>> I indicated in my Slate piece
>> <http://%20https/slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/john-roberts-trump-census-question-supreme-court-october.html> that
>> this is not over, and here’s more proof
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298734311878657>:
>>
>> [image:
>> https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_bigger.jpg]
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>
>>
>> *Donald J. Trump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
>>
>> *✔@realDonaldTrump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
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>> Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot
>> ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and
>> important Census, in this case for 2020. I have asked the lawyers if they
>> can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the.....
>>
>> 96.8K <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1144298731887628288>
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>> 10:37 AM - Jun 27, 2019
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298731887628288>
>>
>> Twitter Ads info and privacy
>> <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256>
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>> 39.2K people are talking about this
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298731887628288>
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>> [image:
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>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>
>>
>> *Donald J. Trump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
>>
>> *✔@realDonaldTrump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
>>
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>>  · 11h <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298731887628288>
>>
>>
>>
>> Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot
>> ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and
>> important Census, in this case for 2020. I have asked the lawyers if they
>> can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the.....
>>
>> [image:
>> https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/874276197357596672/kUuht00m_bigger.jpg]
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>
>>
>> *Donald J. Trump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
>>
>> *✔@realDonaldTrump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>*
>>
>>
>>
>> .....United States Supreme Court is given additional information from
>> which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical
>> matter. Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able
>> the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen. Only in America!
>>
>> 89.3K <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1144298734311878657>
>>
>> 10:37 AM - Jun 27, 2019
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298734311878657>
>>
>> Twitter Ads info and privacy
>> <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256>
>>
>> 35K people are talking about this
>> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144298734311878657>
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>> Posted in census litigation
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d125&c=E,1,FUueB2dKnu_tjoxRm2LgTJSkPxogHHmHC2VflwuAVm082yYCjx7ZV6cB3ZmshgsZCbQxUzmt2YqDpk-dh8Gxv19OWrFL2wTpGO-fsNW2xmZMpg,,&typo=1>
>> , Supreme Court
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d29&c=E,1,A0GUDY0aEfHI11nvQyMNsNe2C7m2TgeUQYcC0m1GnIMRXLCCCpxR92o3NzuHeCZBE9mq5cFR80Rdx11UB484DMA6k3ufbRNONQNOoG35z8s,&typo=1>
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>> “How John Roberts Might Allow Trump to Resurrect the Census Question”
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105807&c=E,1,PPJE0410GiszyzMmb6mHx3SocyzgxzxVE0iHXycKm6y1Ng_rhdiFvzwOHuj8tdhXs9EE6lyPCzdlEaFoHlrQSFe2fexidescBDOnHt8NhqM,&typo=1>
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>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:37 am
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105807&c=E,1,WLk6dzdrNKf22u2ZKxgOEjt-iO0OYOMuI9JdqsVvBNaInw_qmG__NeYODsjAPMpeXxgMNVm3OIC1KL3usPZ5Yt95B1chDGGGLTapTX4Q1-SE&typo=1>
>>  by *Rick Hasen*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,gntjB1D8-btZtMiVwoRx9uprvsCKcOIy92Gh_HzzvKx-L2-LuYrldkSs05s5PKpdB0xWqyWCZS6fMJ1uJl1gpcwZPfbZntZGaEzfvx-QQhGRskAaL1Ndw7tcJw,,&typo=1>
>>
>> I have posted this piece
>> <https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/john-roberts-trump-census-question-supreme-court-october.html> at
>> Slate. It begins:
>>
>> *Despite a favorable ruling for opponents of the census citizenship
>> question on Thursday, the Supreme Court did not definitively decide to
>> exclude citizenship question from the 2020 census. Indeed, I expect that
>> the Trump administration’s Commerce Department and Department of Justice
>> could well be back before the Supreme Court’s next term begins in October
>> arguing for the question’s inclusion, and they could well win and include
>> the question.*
>>
>> It concludes:
>>
>>
>> *The majority opinion and the separate conservative opinions, however,
>> have given the agency plenty of non-pretextual things to say about why it
>> would want to include the citizenship question. Administrative law
>> professor Jennifer Nou even ponders
>> <https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Nou/status/1144259250899816448> that they
>> could argue they were doing it for partisan reasons, following the decision
>> in Thursday’s partisan gerrymandering case giving such conduct the green
>> light. But whatever the reason, the agency will likely act quickly to
>> rehabilitate its pretexual ruling. The agency has said that printing had to
>> begin in July, but plaintiffs challenging inclusion of the question have
>> long claimed the real deadline is October. The government will surely
>> concede now that October is doable. The agency could come back with new
>> reasons, and the part of Roberts’ opinion joined by the conservatives which
>> recognizes the broad agency discretion to include the question for
>> non-pretextual reasons will be front and center.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * If the agency moves to include the question again, the case will be
>> back before the Supreme Court. It would likely be joined by the other case
>> coming out of the Fourth Circuit arguing that the inclusion of the question
>> violated the Equal Protection Clause because it was based on a racially
>> discriminatory purpose. The court did not address the equal protection
>> holding Thursday, despite the outrageous urging
>> <https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/census-case-john-roberts-bush-v-gore-tragedy.html> of
>> the Solicitor General for the Court do to so without briefing. Assuming the
>> Commerce Department moves forward with trying to include the question on
>> the 2020 census, the Fourth Circuit could well keep this case alive to
>> create a record of the racial motivations for inclusion of the original
>> question. On this question, I expect that any new agency decision to
>> include the citizenship question would be found by the court’s
>> conservatives to have cleansed the decision of any racial animus. (The
>> court made just such a finding last year in a Voting Rights Act
>> redistricting case from Texas, **Abbott v. Perez
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.supremecourt.gov%2fopinions%2f17pdf%2f17-586_o7kq.pdf&c=E,1,lzdY9NKgNtMgGtjpzkY4Of3bQn9cFeqaLtmmg_LEbPDF2JrLCIhCD9AP8BId7nfj4aZuCnGMFbwbyzzAOQap_8UjD9JsxIrPLY7Da7QaV7eE&typo=1>*
>> *.)*
>>
>>
>> * So we may see a rare September argument where these issues will be back
>> before the Supreme Court, and John Roberts, who gave the Republicans a
>> green light to gerrymander to their hearts content in today’s **Rucho
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.supremecourt.gov%2fopinions%2f18pdf%2f18-422_9ol1.pdf&c=E,1,dIQaKwVr0cZT6Xskj76f9AxIzye9M_YClLjMVsrLQOX8Ijvu1fKkLsPrmD2HTlJI9uIqDO7_aPvltAjk18FND8U45u1iQSI-bfNG4UzJWzDRR6-rCu0-2TQO&typo=1>** case,
>> may give them yet another tool to solidify their grasp on power despite
>> demographic forces moving against them.*
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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fcat%3d1&c=E,1,WICzk4Trkna2AGVkzaZOXeEOKv-RlWb205WFbIH4Lripv2e-_qEOhVURmnRkpa2kFzgH4GClINgq2f0gwW_LAhGNE_kgEAcJBQbefV9aKDXPGNvUql_gcrtpb2U,&typo=1>
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>> The Dark Future of Gerrymandering
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105805&c=E,1,HOw2FEV0Ed2_nQF7c0mSV26Z6gpci5nFSMYpFNDwv5h_a42TTJo1hdckR9ODt-VNjcai1PGQsmf518rrBsd0-g4oriKxcDeSOlCpgI_GnBlYLlnCm22F&typo=1>
>>
>> Posted on June 27, 2019 9:15 am
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fp%3d105805&c=E,1,eOYPnItED89ipGbPo6NqkJRqRkXB39sq-2tqQXwQnI0nT_Qm9_cHKWBeAER232nzWyABYrgqwJxp7jxSWe9ZhAPGHXEf11v8HSXLn5jG8wgjIW6v&typo=1>
>>  by *Nicholas Stephanopoulos*
>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2felectionlawblog.org%2f%3fauthor%3d12&c=E,1,NYnKToqRUhFK7hjME2zx4dYQQnzJoB54j0_nVK-hrOMie9GIajE1HSDG9XrQNqOWf5ii5hA_D83CjiuGh8ajwMvtjDAv0GRKbwsNJ-2JsTcEH67Kxe_IXA,,&typo=1>
>>
>> After today’s disastrous decision, here are some things that line-drawers
>> could do in the future:
>>
>> ·         Instruct a computer algorithm to generate huge numbers of maps
>> that comply with all nonpartisan criteria *and* produce as large and
>> durable an advantage as possible for the line-drawing party. Then pick an
>> actual plan from this array of potential gerrymanders. This plan will be
>> close to impregnable if it’s challenged on nonpartisan grounds. But it will
>> still massively benefit the line-drawing party, probably more than any
>> human-drawn map could.
>>
>> ·         Revise districts after each election to optimize their
>> performance in the next election. Any districts slipping away from the
>> line-drawing party could have some copartisans added to them. Any districts
>> becoming overly safe could have some copartisans subtracted. Decennial
>> redistricting, in other words, could become a thing of the past.
>> Redistricting every two years is so much more effective.
>>
>> ·         Design noncontiguous districts in order to avoid the
>> constraints of political geography. A state with many Democrats
>> concentrated in cities (like my Illinois) could join clusters of urban
>> Democrats with slightly smaller clusters of rural Republicans hundreds of
>> miles away. These clusters wouldn’t have to be connected since no federal
>> law, and no other law in many states, mandates contiguity. A state could
>> even adopt entirely nongeographic districts, e.g., by assigning a
>> representative (and sufficiently numerous) sample of the state’s population
>> to each district.
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