Section V is on the ropes

[Brittain33]

Which professor was "clubbed"? I don't recall that.

Which population measure is used for the differential? Is it CVAP?

[Brittain33]

OK, fine, then Democrats can do the same thing in New York by getting rid of Grimm and Gibson easily as payback.  All they need to do is get the independent Dems on board by also redrawing the State Senate map to be safely Dem so they dont even have to worry about being bipartisan anymore.  

That's not going to happen.  The New York Constitution only calls for state senate districts to be redistricted once and states that they "shall remain unaltered until the first year of the next decade".

We went through this in the Virginia thread. Unless the constitution explicitly states "redistricting more than once per decade following the census is expressly forbidden," there is an interpretation that mid-decade redistricting is legal. It is not my interpretation, but the argument has been made that there are loopholes in language like this that otherwise looks clear.

[Brittain33]

Great news: Supreme Court released decisions today all written by liberals. The conservatives might have written the Section V, the Affirmative Action, and the marriage decisions!

Is that how Supreme Court announcements work?

We know Section V is seriously endangered, but that's a novel theory.