The Institutional Case for Partisan Gerrymandering Claims

Authors

G. Michael Parsons, Georgetown University Law Center

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

For voters hoping the Supreme Court’s 2017 Term brings relief from partisan gerrymandering, the end of the 2016 Term was inauspicious. In Cooper v. Harris, the majority assumed the legitimacy of “partisan advantage” arguments while the dissent—including Justice Kennedy—warned about the “serious institutional and federalism implications” of judicial intervention in the redistricting process. If past is prologue, this concern for institutional and structural interests does not bode well.

Publisher

Cardozo Law Review de·novo

Volume

2017

First Page

155

Recommended Citation

Parsons, G. Michael, "The Institutional Case for Partisan Gerrymandering Claims" (2017). Cardozo Law Review de•novo. 54.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/de-novo/54