#Bestof2022: A Short History of SCOTUS and Redistricting. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
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#Bestof2022: A Short History of SCOTUS and Redistricting. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
(Originally posted May 31, 2022)
https://www.hoover.org/researc/seeking-way-out-redistricting-chaos
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelors, gerrymandering, custom in American election |
| 0:12.3 | politics, gerrymandering. Draw the map so it favors your side, whichever. After a census |
| 0:19.4 | such as 2020, gerrymandering is much in the news. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, |
| 0:25.8 | a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago |
| 0:31.4 | to comment on one particular gerrymandering journey. This is New York State, the all-powerful |
| 0:38.1 | Empire State, that, according to the 2020 census, is losing one congressional district |
| 0:44.3 | seat from 27 to 26 that compelled the government in Albany to redraw the map. The news came |
| 0:53.2 | in February of 2022, favoring the Democrats. 22 of the 26 seats were looking to stay in or |
| 1:02.5 | belong to a Democratic candidate. However, Judge Patrick McAllister rejected this map as unfair |
| 1:12.2 | and some fashion and gave it to a map draw, Jonathan Servas, and the new map is surprisingly |
| 1:18.6 | controversial. Richard, a very good evening, too. The new map is in place for a primary for |
| 1:26.3 | the Democrats, not in June, but in August. What is it that the Democratic Party objects to |
| 1:32.9 | in the new map? Good evening to you. Well, in the word losing sheets that they hope they were able |
| 1:37.7 | to get. I think I wanted to say one thing to the facts. It turns out this guy McAllister didn't |
| 1:43.3 | fact do the maps, but when he first proposed this situation, which challenged in the intermediate |
| 1:49.0 | and in the highest court of New York, its court of appeals, and both of them backed him, |
| 1:53.9 | what happened in this particular case is that the problem you have is not with the number of people |
| 2:00.7 | per district, it's with the shape of the particular district. And the United States Supreme Court |
| 2:05.8 | at the federal level has made it very clear that you have not virtually exact normal |
| 2:11.3 | equivalents in particular districts, but they gave the state sort of complete freedom in the way |
| 2:15.8 | in which they grew the boundary line. And the Democrats took advantage of that, and generally, |
| 2:20.7 | if you've got 26 seats, you can draw the lines in such a way that you can probably switch three or |
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