By Ilya Shapiro
Two weeks ago I wrote about the emergency appeal of Texas’s new redistricting maps that reached the Supreme Court last month and was argued early last week. The state argued that the interim maps a three-judge district court in San Antonio drew didn’t defer sufficiently to the maps passed by the Texas legislature (which could [...]
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Redistricting Maps, Showing That Modern Voting Rights Act Is Outmoded and Unworkable is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
The decennial redrawing of electoral districts consistently produces extensive litigation. The most notable cases this cycle come, as they often have, from Texas. A number of activist groups challenged the Texas legislature’s maps for state house, state senate, and congressional districts, alleging racial discrimination under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a special [...]
Supreme Court Should Use Texas Redistricting Case to Reconsider Voting Rights Act is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Trevor Burrus, who also worked on the brief discussed below. Rent control is literally a textbook example of bad economic policy. Economics textbooks often use it as an example of how price ceilings create shortages, poor quality goods, and under-the-table dealings. A 1992 survey revealed that 93 [...]
Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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