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Edward B. Foley is the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law and the director of Election Law @ Moritz at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Will Gill v. Whitford get its “Wechsler brief“?
Eric McGhee is a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. PPIC has not reviewed or endorsed this blog post, and takes no position on its use for any purpose. The views expressed are McGhee’s personal views, and not those of PPIC.
Daniel P. Tokaji is the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. A constitutional standard for partisan gerrymandering is the holy grail of election law.
Tyler Green is the solicitor general of Utah. Utah is one of 16 states that joined a merits-stage amicus curiae brief by the state of Texas in support of the appellants defending Wisconsin’s electoral map.
Justin Levitt is a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; he runs the website “All About Redistricting.” When the Supreme Court last addressed partisan gerrymandering in detail, all nine justices agreed that “an excessive injection of politics” into the redistricting process violates the Constitution.
Rick Esenberg is the founder, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, which filed an amicus brief in support of the state appellants in Gill v. Whitford.
Chris Winkelman is general counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee, which filed an amicus brief in support of the state appellants in Gill v. Whitford. Phillip Gordon is an associate at Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky PLLC and contributed to the NRCC’s brief.
Thomas P. Wolf is counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
(UPDATED 5:45 pm: The post has been updated to include additional discussion about the significance of the justices’ decision to block the lower court’s order requiring the state to draw new maps by the fall.)