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Wisconsin Lawsuit is Third Court Challenge Anticipating a Political “Impasse” for Redistricting Maps

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Wisconsin voters join voters in Pennsylvania and Minnesota by initiating litigation in anticipation of a political impasse between the legislative and executive branches in the map-redrawing process. A group of…

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Illinois Minority Leaders Challenge State Legislative Map Drawn with Census Survey Data

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On June 4, Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a state legislative district map drawn and approved by the Democratic majority in the legislature. The Senate and House minority leaders have…

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Analysis: Do Redistricting Maps with Deviations Under 10% Violate the Equal Population Rule? Sometimes.

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Most legal challenges to redistricting maps based on population deviation center around deviations that are too large. However, there are a handful of cases in which a court has found…

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Leading Expert in Redistricting “Grofman,” Suggests a Path to Proving Partisan Gerrymandering

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Bernard Grofman, author, professor at the University of California at Irvine, and an expert witness in a multitude of redistricting cases, published this article in the Washington Post today. In…

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The FiveThirtyEight Blog Releases the Atlas of Redistricting. The Maps are Impressive but Unusable

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This week, the sports and politics polling blog FiveThirtyEight released its Atlas of Redistricting. It takes a comprehensive look at the mapping possibilities for every congressional district in the…

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Federal District Court in Alabama Strikes Down 12 State Legislative Districts on Remand

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Alabama - A U.S. District Court panel invalidated a substantial portion of the Alabama state legislative district map after considering the racial gerrymandering challenge on remand from the U.S. Supreme…

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The Efficiency Gap Visualized Through the Decades

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The hottest thing in redistricting - if there is such a thing - is undoubtedly the emergence of "Efficiency Gap" analysis, and whether this measurement of how gerrymandered a map…

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Efficiency Gap Analysis Gets This Early Critique from Princeton Professor

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Princeton biophysics professor San Wang has an early critique of Efficiency Gap analysis (EG) - a method for measuring partisan gerrymandering that received unexpected support from a federal district court…

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Supreme Court May Resurrect Alabama Legislative Black Caucus’ Equal Population Claims

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The Alabama Legislative Black Caucus' Supreme Court Case was late last year, and focused on whether that state's 2012 legislative redistricting plan was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Interestingly, there was…

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Listen: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Alabama Racial Gerrymander Case

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Listen to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the consolidated cases; Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama and Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama. Democratic lawmakers in the Alabama legislature claim the…