Who gets counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two election law cases, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, and Harris v. Arizona Ind. Redistricting Comm’n, No. 14-232. We’ve covered the issues presented by these cases several times, so please forgive the continuing detour from takings law…
Hawaii is either 5 or 6 hours behind Eastern Time, depending on the time of year (we don’t adhere to Daylight Savings Time), so we’re a quarter-day behind the part of the country where a lot — if not most — of the important things legal, financial, and political occur. Scheduling conference calls can…
The latest news in a fast-moving election law case, about the validity of a Hawaiians-only election to choose delegates to a constitutional convention about the issue of Hawaiian national sovereignty: this morning, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy issued this order which temporarily puts a stop to the counting of the ballots. An extraordinary move, but one …
Here’s a fascinating decision from the Ninth Circuit on our other area of interest, election law.
Public Integrity Alliance, Inc. v. City of Tucson, No. 15-16142 (9th Cir. Nov. 10, 2015) was a challenge to Tucson’s unusual hybrid system of electing the city council. The primary election is a partisan primary, limited to residents…
1. Don’t repeatedly refer to your private poll as an “election” and limit it to “voters” of only a certain race. Real “voters” who are excluded from your election .. I mean poll might get the wrong idea, like it’s an election or something.
2. Don’t use public money to fund said…
We don’t want to take too much time away from our usual land use, takings, and eminent domain fare, but we just couldn’t let this one go by without comment.
Last Friday, we posted our amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, the reapportionment case which the U.S. Supreme Court is considering. The issue…
Who gets counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
Please forgive the deviation (a pun for our election law colleagues) from the blog’s usual land use and takings fare, but frequent readers understand that we also have an interest in election law, and occasionally post up items of interest.
Today we filed this amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott…
We visited Think Tech Hawaii’s downtown studios for a chat with Chris Lethem about Evenwel v. Abbott, the one-person-one-vote reapportionment case currently being briefed in the U.S. Supreme Court. As we’ve written, Evenwel could directly affect how Hawaii has reapportioned its legislature since statehood, and is a case to follow closely.
We…
We’re in Chicago this week participating in the ABA Annual Meeting. While we really are looking forward to a slate of thrilling committee meetings, what we’re really anticipating is the CLE programming. Here are what we think are the highlights:
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There’s a category of cases in which it isn’t difficult, with reasonable accuracy, to predict the ultimate outcome without knowing much about the substantive law. The recent ACA and marriage cases, for example. You kind of just know how they’re going to come out. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was another one of…
