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Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU Law School. The Supreme Court has struggled between seeing itself as an institution that only vindicates individual rights and as one that vindicates, at times, more structural or group-based interests.
David H. Gans is the director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights & Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center, which filed an amicus brief for current and former members of Congress in support of the challengers in Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
Theresa J. Lee and Emily Rong Zhang are attorneys with the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed amicus briefs supporting the challengers in Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
John Phillippe is chief counsel at the Republican National Committee, which filed an amicus brief in support of the Wisconsin in Gill v. Whitford. It is difficult to see the Supreme Court’s decisions in Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone together as anything but a significant setback for those who would have the courts wade even further into the legislative process of redistricting.
Derek T. Muller is an associate professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Gill v. Whitford began as a blockbuster election-law case and ended (this time) as a federal-courts decision with a hint of trial strategy and evidence.
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department. He is the coauthor of “Who’s Counting?