In recent weeks, and as the Nov. 4 election day approaches, California residents have been bombarded with advertisements and voters have received ballots in the mail with only one thing to vote for or against: Proposition 50. The state’s official and nonpartisan voter guide says that the measure is a legislative constitutional amendment that “authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’ partisan redistricting.”

With the start of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term this month, UCLA School of Law has been at the forefront of discussion, scholarship, and advocacy before the high court. This included two events that featured nationally renowned legal commentators – the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse and University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman – in conversation with faculty experts.