I bet DeSantis is counting on the right-wing Supreme Court to let his map stand, at least for 2022 elections. He is evil but I think he’s got a good chance to be our next president. He has terrible policies like Trump but with less personal baggage and is not as obsessed with 2020.
Category: Gerrymandering
Update on gerrymandering in New York
Early read on NY lower court judge blocking Dems’ 22D-4R gerrymander: ruling likely to be stayed on appeal, so Dems believe map will remain in place, at least for 2022.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 31, 2022
Huge stakes here, as a “neutral” map could cost Dems 3-4 seats and erase their nationwide remap gains. pic.twitter.com/qeAjHeWZ5z
A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled Legislature to redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional and gerrymandered to benefit Democrats. Legislative leaders plan to appeal.https://t.co/xzeMuLnLiI
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 31, 2022
Probably means you can kiss the Dem redistricting advantage goodbye.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 31, 2022
To their credit, Dem-appointed judges acting on principle > partisan politics. First Maryland, now New York. Undoing some of the most egregious gerrymanders of the cycle.
New York lawmakers draw redistricting map that boosts Democrats https://t.co/awHPIznStU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Louisiana
Louisiana becomes the 40th state to complete congressional redistricting (if you count Ohio's GOP map), with GOP legislators overriding Gov. Edwards (D) veto to enact a 5R-1D map maintaining just one Black majority seat. Lawsuit filed, but after Alabama, it's a long shot. https://t.co/2v7iVZATei
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 30, 2022
Fun fact: This is likely only the third successful veto override in Louisiana history! https://t.co/wXaHnOE1FN
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) March 30, 2022
It is shameful that the first vote overriding a Louisiana governor’s veto in a generation—which happened just today—was to deny black Louisianans fair representation in Congress.
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) March 31, 2022
We are proud to stand on the side of the voters. We will never waver in our pursuit of justice. https://t.co/dz3K2uCjbL
🚨BREAKING: Black voters challenge new Louisiana map as violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Asks court to order the creation of a second majority-Black district. @EliasLawGroup @RedistrictFdnhttps://t.co/wO9wWKzkvL
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 31, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Florida
DeSantis is so extreme he wouldn’t even accept a map approved by a Republican-majority legislature.
NEW: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoes new congressional map approved by the Republican-controlled legislature, setting up a showdown with his own party https://t.co/JAKQ9Yk526
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 29, 2022
The Legislature's map preserved a majority-Black district in north FL. The district was drawn to protect Black voters' ability to elect candidates of their choice. DeSantis opposes the district, saying it was improperly drawn using race as the main factor. https://t.co/sncrVMIn4d
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) March 29, 2022
#NEW: House Speaker Sprowls and Senate President Simpson have issued a joint statement in response to Gov. DeSantis vetoing Florida's congressional map. https://t.co/8IrSBGBGEH pic.twitter.com/PKfPwuk4lB
— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) March 29, 2022
Florida can either pass legal maps and not get sued or it can pass illegal maps, face aggressive litigation and lose. https://t.co/mEketQouQX
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 4, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Maryland
An aside to this @baseballot piece: Judged by efficiency gap or extra partisan seats, Maryland has one of the **fairest** congressional maps in the nation. https://t.co/ln9GxYq6rk
— Bryn Stole (@brynstole) April 22, 2022
New: a Maryland court has struck down Democrats' 7D-1C-0R map as an illegal partisan gerrymander, the first such state-level victory in the GOP's direction. If replaced w/ a neutral map, this could end up costing Dems 1-2 seats. pic.twitter.com/ceMsDlJfzB
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 25, 2022
Judge throws out Maryland congressional map over ‘extreme’ gerrymandering https://t.co/SzmEKN1LXC
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 25, 2022
A redistricting loss was just handed to us in Maryland. A federal judge ruled that the congressional map unfairly favored dems.
— ✨🌻ᗅᗫᒪᗅᓿ🌻✨ (@AdlaisWorld) March 25, 2022
It was gerrymandered, however Republicans voted against anti-gerrymandering laws. It apparently only seems to matter when it’s against them. #DemVoice1 pic.twitter.com/VPMnwkYYDj
Last night, Maryland Democrats released a new congressional map to replace the one that was thrown out in court last week. Up and analyzed on @FiveThirtyEight: https://t.co/19BjzOSshR pic.twitter.com/whx6mGHB0P
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) March 29, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Ohio
The federal court here imposes a map that the state supreme court ruled is unlawful under the state constitution. It's literally an illegal map that this court ruled the state must use anyway.
— Josh Douglas (@JoshuaADouglas) April 21, 2022
Up is down. https://t.co/cIRLL5BirO
OH! IO!
— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) April 22, 2022
A district-by-district breakdown of Ohio’s latest congressional map, which will likely be used in 2022, might be used in 2024, but won’t be used in 2026.
GOP advantage could go from 12-4 to 13-2.
No paywall: https://t.co/y6MLeThXvK
🚨BREAKING: Ohio Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Republican dominated commission's THIRD remedial plan. Orders a new plan that meets the partisan fairness requirements by May 6.https://t.co/jGMvDuA1EY
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 14, 2022
New: In the final months of a decades-long political career, Ohio's GOP chief justice is standing firm as the last wall blocking her party from gerrymandering. Republicans are furious. Some want her impeached, even though she's set to leave the court soon https://t.co/1tK24M55gp
— Sam Levine (@srl) April 12, 2022
Missed this yesterday: The panel of three federal judges considering taking over Ohio's redistricting process has some more questions they want state officials, Democrats, Republicans and everyone else involved in the case, to answer. pic.twitter.com/YJacz38YVB
— Andrew Tobias (@AndrewJTobias) April 8, 2022
This schedule would seem to preclude a legal challenge to Ohio’s GOP map before the May primary, paving the way for a map as lopsided as 13R-2D to be used for the 2022 elections – unless a federal court intervenes. https://t.co/0n4OOUgRTP
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 29, 2022
THREAD on the extreme lawlessness taking place in Ohio
— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) March 26, 2022
I'm on a flight, which gives me an opportunity to do something I've wanted to do for a while: review just how lawless the Ohio GOP behavior has become, and the risk it poses to the rule of law in Ohio long-term.
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I'm seeing a lot of news outlets depict Ohio's GOP-enacted map as giving Rs an advantage in at least 10 of 15 seats, but that understates the gerrymander.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 29, 2022
There are 10 solid R seats, two solid D seats and three competitive seats. There's a real chance of a 13R-2D rout in 2022.
"Republicans have a few tactics they use to defend illegal maps…But in Georgia and Ohio, Republicans are employing a new procedural strategy — creating delays in the legal process until it’s too late to overturn illegal maps before an election." https://t.co/lzNDn3jUak
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) March 27, 2022
Our state is at the heart of a nationwide discussion about the fairness and justness of our political boundaries and the systems that dictate them. https://t.co/GaTF2HJAP9
— Aharon Brown (@aharon_brown) March 25, 2022
Ohio redistricting standoff causing logistical nightmare for election workers https://t.co/0SAySeZJZl
— Ion V. Sancho (@Ionsancho1) March 21, 2022
Supreme Court right-wing hypocrisy on voting rights
The Supreme Court isn’t bothering to hide its designs on our democracy, @paulwaldman1 and @ThePlumLineGS write https://t.co/daANpvzFux
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) March 23, 2022
#ELB: Breaking: Supreme Court, in Bizarre Unsigned Opinion, Strikes Wisconsin Legislative Maps on Voting Rights Grounds, Signalling New Hostility to the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/WYhjjvnZO2
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) March 23, 2022
Needless to say, the Supreme Court's rather selective application of the Purcell principle (no last-minute changes to election rules) in AL vs. WI won't do anything to diminish perceptions it's become a partisan body.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022
So much for overturning redistricting plans so close to an election. The full hypocrisy of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court on display. This is a willful exercise of political power by the Court, not judges calling balls and strikes https://t.co/am8mR3bLaI
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) March 23, 2022
Six weeks ago, in early February, SCOTUS stayed a ruling ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map because it was too close to the election
— David Nir (@DavidNir) March 23, 2022
Now, in late March, it's ordering Wisconsin to redraw its legislative maps https://t.co/pCwGbugAt0
Keep in mind that this doesn't apply to the congressional map the WI Supreme Court adopted (not that that map helps Dems much). https://t.co/zG06wx5yqK
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 23, 2022
This is an absolutely shocking decision. The maps were adopted by a Republican justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This appeal was considered a Hail Mary, and it prevailed. I am stunned by this ruling. https://t.co/i5r4D0eqcj
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2022
BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Wisconsin Republicans' request to throw out governor's state legislative maps drawn to include an extra majority-black district. Justices Kagan & Sotomayor write a dissent. Apparent vote is 7-2, but we cannot be sure as this is on the shadow docket.
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) March 23, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Kansas (3/2/22)
The legal fight over Kansas redistricting continues.
— Katie Bernard (@KatieJ_Bernard) March 1, 2022
A third lawsuit was filed today – this one in Douglas County District court focused on allegations of political gerrymandering of Lawrence. #ksleg https://t.co/LDEs9gibci
This is how partisan power gets entrenched.
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NickKnudsenUS) February 8, 2022
The Kansas GOP’s supermajority, in place due to gerrymandering, is overriding the Governor’s veto so that their *new* gerrymandered maps can pass and further entrench their power.
A vicious political cycle that’s killing democracy. https://t.co/WhYYFhkODt
Imminent Litigation To Fight GOP Gerrymandering In Kansas Revealedhttps://t.co/askR43SUpZ
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) February 13, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Ohio (3/21/22)
OHIO: I'm told there's a strong likelihood plaintiffs will file a new lawsuit against the GOP's latest congressional map before the end of the day, per the OH Supreme Court's order Friday.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 21, 2022
Republicans are hoping courts will say the clock has run out on a challenge. We'll see.
Wow: on a seeming technicality, the OH Supreme Court leaves open the possibility for the latest GOP congressional gerrymander to be used for this November’s election. A surprise and a setback for Democrats. https://t.co/Xb0NfnsY5K
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 18, 2022
Of the five remaining states, Ohio has by far the most potential to alter the national picture. If the OH Supreme Court invalidates the GOP plan and orders a 8-7 Trump plan (example, left), it could hand Dems 2-3 more seats vs. the current 12R-4D gerrymander (right). pic.twitter.com/vtgjiFwRlB
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 8, 2022
New: Ohio's Republicans propose a new 10R-2D-3C map that could still result in a 13R-2D split in a favorable GOP year. To my eye, this isn't really any less of a gerrymander than the first map the OH Supreme Court struck down. https://t.co/b9yb8UjKH7
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 1, 2022
Given that this map isn't much fairer than the one that was ruled illegal in Jan., the OH Supreme Court may strike down this map too. But in the meantime, OSU's Steve Huefner tells me he believes this map is in effect until the court says otherwise. https://t.co/QgCIcO80jz
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) March 2, 2022
#NEW: The Ohio Redistricting Commission has voted 5-2 to adopt a new congressional map. The plan now faces judicial review. https://t.co/V8PVmYBluG pic.twitter.com/VGyKNnXTcW
— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) March 2, 2022
P.S. If it stands, this Ohio map would be good for only two election cycles, since it failed to get any Democratic support on the commission. https://t.co/QgCIcO80jz pic.twitter.com/SquK2XGgdm
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) March 2, 2022
The congressional map adopted by the majority commissioners today continues to gerrymander Ohio’s communities, completely ignoring Ohioans’ demands for fairness. This is unacceptable.
— Senator Kenny Yuko (@KennyYuko) March 2, 2022
Update on gerrymandering in Pennsylvania
To intervene vs. Dem-majority state court rulings in NC & PA would seem to contradict SCOTUS's earlier (and highly disputed) rationale for rescuing the AL GOP's map: that it's too close to the election for changes. https://t.co/Pl7VQ6zv4i
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) February 28, 2022
NEW: Pennsylvania Republicans have asked SCOTUS to block the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's congressional map, arguing that the U.S. Constitution gives the state legislature a near-unlimited right to regulate federal elections. https://t.co/PXKZnMo9Pt
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 28, 2022
NEWS: In a 4-3 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has picked the Carter plan as the commonwealth's new congressional map. More TK. pic.twitter.com/lFtajvkSv1
— Stephen Caruso (@StephenJ_Caruso) February 23, 2022
Full story here, more context coming as able https://t.co/m53mWntr9l
— Stephen Caruso (@StephenJ_Caruso) February 23, 2022
🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court ADOPTS new congressional map. Court selects maps put forward by our clients (Carter) as new statewide map!
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 23, 2022
Proud of the work @EliasLawGroup and @RedistrictFdn did to ensure fair maps in Pennsylvania.https://t.co/L8iDXaDR1l
Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court chose this map (the "Carter map") as the commonwealth's next congressional map. https://t.co/uzDOnLgKtg pic.twitter.com/flVoW37prB
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) February 23, 2022
PENNSYLVANIA changes
— u〽️ichvoter 🌴🏳️🌈 (@umichvoter) February 23, 2022
Fitzpatrick: Biden +5.8 -> Biden +4.6
Wild: Biden +4.8 -> Biden +0.6
Cartwright: Trump +4.4 -> Trump +2.8
Perry: Trump +2.9 -> Trump +3.1
Lamb (OPEN): Biden +2.7 -> Biden +5.8
Sad! 