Early Returns Podcast - Inside the New Redistricting Wars with Richard Pildes and Jason Torchinsky
Early Returns Law & Politics Podcast with Jan Baran
Congressional maps are being redrawn in the middle of the decade, the Supreme Court has sharply narrowed a core piece of the Voting Rights Act, and both parties are racing to squeeze out every seat they can before 2028. On this episode of Early Returns, host Jan Baran sorts through what is actually happening with two lawyers who have argued these cases: Richard Pildes, professor of law at NYU and former legal advisor to the Obama and Biden campaigns, and Jason Torchinsky, partner at Holtzman Vogel and counsel in the recent Louisiana case before the Court.
The conversation explains how redistricting got here — from the one-person, one-vote rule to the Voting Rights Act and the limits the Supreme Court placed on the use of race in drawing districts — and what the Louisiana decision in Callais changes going forward. Pildes and Torchinsky discuss the role of partisan motivation in map-drawing, the population shifts expected to move 10 to 15 House seats from blue states to red after the 2030 census, and where the redistricting fights head next. Pildes also reflects on his work for President Biden's commission on the Supreme Court.
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