Dems' Attorneys Say Partisan Gerrymanders Remain Subject to Judicial...

PR Newswire;  April 28, 2004 ;     215 words ......decision today in Vieth v. Jubelirer, a case involving partisan gerrymandering issues, was a warning shot to legislators who are...that federal courts can hear claims of excessive partisan gerrymandering. Second, all nine Justices acknowledged that excessive...cases. So the search for a standard ...

Tempest in an empty teapot: why the Constitution does not regulate...

William and Mary Law Review;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the populace, as the partisan gerrymandering cases suppose. Nor...UNCONSTITUTIONAL II. THE CASE OF PARTISAN GERRYMANDERS A. Partisan Gerrymanders as Unconstitutional Vote Dilution 1. Partisan Gerrymanders as Second-Generation...

REDISTRICTING GONE MAD.(EDITORIAL)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  June 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......here at home over partisan gerrymandering -- the shaping of electoral districts for partisan ends -- that will...been looking for. Partisan gerrymandering is as old as the nation...textbook example of partisan gerrymandering -- one so egregious...only a piece of the ...

Judging partisan gerrymanders under the elections clause.

Yale Law Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......CLAUSE AND PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING A. English...REVIEW OF PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING UNDER THE...declaring partisan gerrymandering--the manipulation...complaining of partisan gerrymandering--the Democratic...be open to partisan gerrymandering claims ...

COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO GERRYMANDERING.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  December 13, 2005 ;     459 words ......reining in the most extreme forms of partisan gerrymandering, agreeing to hear a constitutional...of Texas voters, Madden said. Partisan gerrymandering is as old as the nation itself...but did so tentatively. He said partisan gerrymandering may be so extreme as to be ...

Justices Order New Look At Tex. Redistricting Case; GOP-Crafted Plan Stays...

The Washington Post;  October 19, 2004 ;     654 words ......out the possibility that extreme partisan gerrymandering could violate the Constitution...third claim -- unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering -- is still alive. But exactly...standard could be developed to judge partisan gerrymandering. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy straddled...

Managing Gerrymandering

Texas Law Review;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......have railed against partisan gerrymandering for decades, if not...unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders would be justiciable...entertained its first partisan gerrymandering claim since Bandemer...holding claims of partisan gerrymandering nonjusticiable for...extreme ...

Elections with no meaning

International Herald Tribune;  February 24, 2004 ;     499 words ......that could put limits on this partisan gerrymandering and put power back where it belongs...impregnable.The principled way to stop partisan gerrymandering and the way to create a doctrine...appeared reluctant to strike down partisan gerrymandering. That is not surprising because...

EDITORIAL: The court punts on redistricting.(Editorial)

Newsday (Melville, NY);  June 29, 2006 ;     351 words ......Court delivered again yesterday on the knotty problem of partisan gerrymandering. The court has struggled unsuccessfully for years to...push the court beyond that point in identifying when partisan gerrymandering becomes unconstitutional. So the views of new Chief...

The court's missed opportunity to draw the line on partisan...

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......3) the Court established that partisan gerrymandering presents a justiciable controversy...separate approaches for adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims, (8) four other Justices...appellants' claims of statewide partisan gerrymandering because of the absence of a workable...

Judges Reject Remap Plea By Va. GOP

The Washington Post;  September 11, 1991 ;     379 words ......against the Republicans" in redistricting. But he said the partisan gerrymandering wasn't so harmful that it justified a pretrial motion...fight. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has said that partisan gerrymandering can be so severe that it is unconstitutional, it has...

Texas redistricting mostly upheld

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 29, 2006 ;     618 words ......failure to define the limits of partisan gerrymandering, coupled with the new analysis...court to come up with authentic partisan gerrymandering standards leads people to other...to consider possible limits on partisan gerrymandering. But Justices Antonin Scalia and...

Rescuing U.S. Democracy

The Washington Post;  December 15, 2003 ;     595 words ......is frowned upon. In 1986 the Supreme Court said that partisan gerrymandering might be unconstitutional if it were so bald as to effectively...gerrymandering has received probing judicial scrutiny, grossly partisan gerrymandering has not. That ought to change. Redistricting that renders...

ALITO'S VIEWS AND O'CONNOR'S

The Boston Globe;  December 14, 2005 ;     272 words ......urt's legitimate concern about racial gerrymandering from partisan gerrymandering at issue in Davis v. Bandemer. Only by misreading O...the principle "one person, one vote" to issues such as partisan gerrymandering and disagreeing with the principle of "one person, one...

High court's hot potato: redistricting; A Texas case, argued Wednesday,...

The Christian Science Monitor;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Democrats around the country to use partisan gerrymandering to try to establish one-party...counteract decades of blatant partisan gerrymandering by Democrats when they controlled...considered the issue of excessive partisan gerrymandering two years ago in a case involving...