NO Election law opinions from #SCOTUS today: no partisan gerrymandering, political speech, Texas voting rights, or Ohio voter purge. Next chance is 5/29 (day after Memorial Day)
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The ONLY case remaining from the October sitting (now that EPIC has been decided) is Gill, the partisan gerrymandering case and the only Justice who has not written yet from that sitting is CJ Roberts, who is skeptical of such claims, but....
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it is possible that Gill will be consolidated with Benisek, the Maryland gerrymandering case, and Kennedy writing both, or that Roberts had the assignment and couldn't keep it, or that Gill will be rejected on standing grounds and court will do merits of gerrymandering in MD case
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handy chart of what's left to be decided and who's written over
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Or that there is no majority opinion in Gil, and the CJ is writing for a four-justice plurality.
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The other possibility is that the CJ writes for a 6 (or more) person Court to strike down the gerrymander in a narrow fashion similar to his opinion in NFIB.
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