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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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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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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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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…

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Listen to the NCSL Webinar on Recent Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decisions

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Last week the National Conference of State Legislatures hosted this webinar on the recent Supreme Court Partisan Gerrymandering decisions. You can watch/listen below. The discussion gives good insight into the…

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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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Supreme Court Keeps Partisan Gerrymandering Challenge Alive in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin - Whitford v. Gill This case had been the one to watch because it offered the court an opportunity to expound on when partisan gerrymandering becomes egregious enough to…