11

Mar

Case Updates, NEWS, Redistricting LitigationSTATENEWS, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Lawsuit Challenges Legislatures’ Move to Retain Law Firms for Future Redistricting Challenges

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In most states, post-redistricting litigation is a foregone conclusion. In anticipation of just that, the Majority Leader of the Wisconsin Senate and the Speaker of the House entered into contracts…

09

Jul

Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigation, Uncategorizedpartisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court, Whitford v Gill, Wisconsin

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…

16

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Litigationefficiency gap, oral argument, partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court, Whitford v Gill, Wisconsin

An Update on the Partisan Gerrymander Case Everyone is Talking About

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Wisconsin - It's the case that all the legal and social science geeks have been eyeing for months now.  It offers maybe the best chance for the Supreme Court to finally…

14

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigationoral argument, partisan gerrymandering, scotus, Supreme Court, Whitford v Gill, Wisconsin

Watch: UW Professor Reviews Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case in Detail

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This challenge to Wisconsin's state legislative district map alleges the Wisconsin state assembly drew politically gerrymandered districts to entrench Republican power in 2011.  Plaintiffs claim the gerrymander was so egregious, it…

14

Jan

Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigationcongressional, featured, oral argument, partisan gerrymandering, scotus, Supreme Court, Whitford v Gill, Wisconsin

Listen: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case Whitford v. Gill

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLu61vk-kns&t=102s The case is a challenge to Wisconsin's state legislative district map.  It alleges the Wisconsin state assembly drew politically gerrymandered districts to entrench Republican power in 2011.  Plaintiffs claim…

14

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigationfeatured, infographic, partisan gerrymandering, Whitford v Gill, Wisconsin

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case in One Infographic

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  If you have been meaning to do a Google search and read up on the partisan gerrymandering case over Wisconsin's state legislative district map, but you don't have the 3…

18

Jan

Equal Protection, Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Race RulesCampaign Legal Center, efficiency gap, legal, Wisconsin

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…

08

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymandersefficiency gap, partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court, Wisconsin

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…)

29

Nov

Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymandersefficiency gap, partisan gerrymandering, Persily, Wisconsin

Discussion on Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Decision on Bloomberg

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Listen to Stanford Law Professor Nathan Persily and Ruth Greenwood, deputy director of Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, discuss a Wisconsin federal panel's approval of a long-sought after measure…