Tag: racial gerrymandering

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases last week. The issues before the Court included choice-of-law clauses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s whistleblower protection, and racial gerrymandering. Below is a brief summary of the issu...

In Wittman v Personhuballah, 578 U. S. ____ (2016), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that none of the three Members of Congress from Virginia who brought the racial gerrymandering suit had legal standing to challenge the state’s redistrict...

In Shaw v Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993), the U.S. Supreme Court held that claims of racial redistricting must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny. It further held that districts that can’t be explained on grounds other than race run afoul of th...

In Bethune-Hill v Virginia State Board of Elections, the U.S. Supreme Court considered what constitutes racial gerrymandering.   Through its holding that the district court applied an incorrect legal standard in determining that race did ...