15

Jan

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Video: Sen. Jeff Sessions on Voting Rights

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Washington. DC: Here is the exchange between Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions on voting, voter fraud, and the Voting Rights Act.  

11

Jan

NEWS, Race in Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Race RulesNorth Carolina, northcarolina, redistricting, scotus, Supreme Court

Supreme Court Orders Stay in North Carolina Redistricting Case

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Washington DC - The full text of the order is below:   TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 16A646 NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL. V. SANDRA LITTLE COVINGTON, ET…

08

Jan

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Briefs on Timing of a Remedy Filed in Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Wisconsin - A federal district court last November found Wisconsin's 2011 Republican-drawn state assembly map to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.  That almost never happens. (more…)

08

Jan

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Texas Three-Judge Court Cites “Voluminous” Record as Reason Why it Will Take Its Sweet Time on Texas Redistricting

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San Antonio, Texas - Its the biggest, most watched redistricting litigation of the decade; but the Texas redistricting case(s) began in 2011 and no ruling has been forthcoming by the…

08

Jan

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Chief Justice Roberts Requests Response in NC Racial Gerrymandering Case

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North Carolina - A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled that 28 state legislative districts in North Carolina's 2010 redistricting map were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders that diluted the votes of black and Hispanic…

08

Jan

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Texas Federal Court Imposes Preclearance on City of Pasadena

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Pasadena, Texas - The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in this ruling invalidated the city's move from an eight-member district redistricting map to a mixed map…

07

Dec

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Cumulative Voting for School Board Ordered By Federal Court in Missouri

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Missouri - Late last month a federal district court ended a two year challenge to the Ferguson-Florissant School District's use of at-large elections for its seven member school board.  The court…

06

Dec

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NPR and Scotusblog Recap Oral Arguments in Racial Gerrymandering Case

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Wash. DC - NPR's Nina Totenberg recaps Supreme Court oral arguments in , Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections and McCrory v. Harris;  the racial gerrymandering claims arising from the…

06

Dec

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Duke University Team Dabbles with Its Own Algorithm for Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering

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North Carolina - It isn't Efficiency Gap Analysis, but a team of mathematicians at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy have applied its own model (Markov Chain Monte Carlo…