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On the passing of Justice Scalia and this year’s voting rights cases
From Sam Wang at the Princeton Election Consortium ...
http://election.princeton.edu/2016/02/14/scalia/#comments
If I were a betting man, I would say that the Roberts Court’s impact on voting rights (link to Rick Hasen’s overview) is about to enter a very different phase. For example, consider two of this year’s cases. The Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission case concerns the latitude that such Commissions have in drawing districts. Oral arguments occurred in December. The outcome depended on Justice Anthony Kennedy’s vote, but probably not any more. Now the case is virtually certain to favor the Commission.
And then there is the Evenwel v. Abbott case, which governs the question of how to draw districts to be equal in size – by population, or by voter registration? Equal population is the longstanding norm. That already seemed unlikely to change, now even more so.
And then there is the Evenwel v. Abbott case, which governs the question of how to draw districts to be equal in size – by population, or by voter registration? Equal population is the longstanding norm. That already seemed unlikely to change, now even more so.
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