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Listen to Supreme Court Oral Arguments in the North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case

By Michelle Davis

On March 26, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Rucho v. Common Cause, a partisan gerrymandering case from North Carolina.Click here for background on this case and its companion…

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SCOTUSblog Symposium in Anticipation of Oral Arguments in Partisan Gerrymandering Cases

By Michelle Davis

. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two key partisan gerrymandering cases on March 26; one from Maryland (Benesik v. Lamone) and one from North Carolina (Rucho v.…

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Panel Discusses Election Administration, Redistricting and Campaign Finance

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On Thursday, January 31, a panel of professors and activists met to discuss the state of the American election system. Here is the description provided by the Hammer Forum of…

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Watch: A Mathematical Measurement of Partisan Gerrymandering

By Michelle Davis

. Researchers at Duke University do a good job explaining their quantitative analysis of North Carolina’s congressional redistricting maps in lay terms. In this video they present fairly solid statistical…

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Redistricting Reform Advocates Strategize at Gerrymandering Summit

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The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy hosted the "Terminate Gerrymandering Summit and Fair Maps Incubator " Conference earlier this month as part of an effort to take advantage…

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Federal Court Rejects a Citizenship Question for the 2020 Census

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A New York federal district court has rejected the administration's bid to place a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census. The U.S. Department of Commerce, which is the main…

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Are Redistricting Commissions in Danger?

By Michelle Davis

Arizona, California and more recently, Ohio are among the handful of states that have established independent redistricting commissions by ballot measures. The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld a challenge to…

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MD and NC Partisan Gerrymandering Cases Return to the U.S. Supreme Court

By Michelle Davis

On January 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court took up two long-standing partisan gerrymandering challenges on appeal from two federal district courts; one in Maryland and the other in North Carolina. …

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Maryland’s Sixth District Ruled a Partisan Gerrymander by Federal District Court

By Michelle Davis

On November 7th, after managing a protracted series of procedural issues involving a lawsuit that was initially filed in 2013, a federal district court panel invalidated Maryland's 6th congressional district…

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Watch: Briefing and Discussion on Redistricting and Voting at the Washington Foreign Press Center

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American University Professor David Lubin, discusses Redistricting and Election Laws at the Washington Foreign Press Center on November 1, 2018. (more…)