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Mar

Monthly Redistricting Update, NEWSMonthly Updates

February Redistricting News Update

By Michelle Davis

On RedistrictingOnline . SCOTUSBLOG SYMPOSIUM IN ANTICIPATION OF ORAL ARGUMENTS IN PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING CASES WATCH: A MATHEMATICAL MEASUREMENT OF PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING WATCH: PANEL DISCUSSES ELECTION ADMINISTRATION, REDISTRICTING AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE…

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Feb

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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…

22

Jan

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Redistricting Reform Advocates Strategize at Gerrymandering Summit

By Editor

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…

15

Jan

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Federal Court Rejects a Citizenship Question for the 2020 Census

By Editor

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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Jan

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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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Nov

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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…

01

Nov

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pennsylvania Republican’s Congressional Map Appeal

By Michelle Davis

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari to Republican lawmakers in the Pennsylvania legislature after a January ruling by the Pa. State Supreme Court invalidating the congressional map enacted by…

24

Jul

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Michigan State Supreme Court Hears Argument on Commission Ballot Initiative

By Editor

Last week, the Michigan State Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that pits redistricting reform advocates at odds with opponents about whether to allow a proposal for an…

22

Feb

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State Supreme Court Redraws Pennsylvania Congressional Map

By Editor

  Pennsylvania - This January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the state's congressional map was an unconstitutional gerrymander.  The plaintiffs had alleged the map is an eggregious partisan gerrymander executed by Republican state lawmakers that allowed…