Alumni, welcome back for Reunions! This Saturday, as part of Princeton’s annual Reunions, Sam will be moderating a bipartisan panel on gerrymandering. Our new initiative, the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, uses data analytics and the law to address gerrymandering. We’re working at the federal level (see our last-minute appeal to help the Supreme Court) and the […]
Entries from May 31st, 2018
This Saturday at Princeton: A bipartisan panel on gerrymandering
May 31st, 2018, 1:10pm by Will Adler
Tags: Redistricting
SCOTUS Tea Leaf Watch
May 23rd, 2018, 8:51am by Sam Wang
The anti-labor Epic Systems decision reminds us that the Supreme Court is fundamentally conservative in its outlook – in the political sense, not a textualist sense. Edith Roberts has the roundup. FantasySCOTUS watch: I give you the top 16 punters. Gill v. Whitford: 9 guess affirm, 5 reverse. Benisek v. Lamone: 10 reverse, 5 affirm, […]
Tags: Redistricting · Supreme Court
The Princeton Election Consortium needs your help!
May 9th, 2018, 10:26pm by Sam Wang
Here at PEC, we need help for the 2018 season. I want to revamp the site, as well as redesign some of the ways we present information. It’s an effort for the summer, with the goal of being fully automatic by fall. Interested? See this ad, and write to us. One catch: it would be […]
Tags: 2018 Election
Tea Leaves II: FantasySCOTUS renders a verdict
May 5th, 2018, 2:09am by Sam Wang
(Welcome to readers of SCOTUSblog! -Sam) Postscript: Obviously, you can do what I did here for other cases. You are welcome to post your results in comments. Better yet, if you want to write a program to do this automatically, that would be quite welcome! This week, Heather Gerken, election law scholar and Dean of […]
Tags: Redistricting · Supreme Court
