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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.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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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.

https://www.hoover.org/research/seeking-way-out-redistricting-chaos

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Jerrymandering. Custom in American election politics, gerrymandering. Draw the map so it favors your side, whichever.

0:48.0

After a census such as 2020, gerrymandering is much in the in the news I welcome professor Richard Epstein a senior fellow at

0:56.9

the Hoover Institution teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago to comment

1:02.3

on one particular gerrymandering journey.

1:06.4

This is New York State, the all-powerful Empire State, that according to the 2020 Census

1:12.2

is losing one congressional district seat from 27 to 26

1:17.8

that compelled the government in Albany to redraw the map. The news came in in February of 2022,

1:25.7

favoring the Democrats. 22 of the 26 seats were looking to stay in or

1:31.9

belong to a Democratic candidate.

1:35.9

However, Judge Patrick McAllister rejected this map as unfair in some fashion and gave it to a map drawer Jonathan

1:45.7

Servas and the new map is surprisingly controversial.

1:50.1

Richard, a very good evening to you. The new map is in place for a primary for the Democrats,

1:57.4

not in June, but in August. What is it that the Democratic Party objects to in the new map good evening to you well and

2:05.8

the word losing seats that they hope they were able to get I think I wanted to

2:10.0

just add one thing to the facts it turns out this guy McAllister did in fact do the maps, but when he first proposed this situation, it was challenged in the intermediate and in the highest court of New York, it's court of Appeals, and both of them back to him.

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