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2024 Elections: What's Ahead

Policy Backgrounders

CED’s Policy Backgrounders provide timely insights on prominent business and economic policy issues facing the nation.

Redistricting Update: A Continued Focus on the Courts

October 24, 2023

In May 2022, CED released a Policy Backgrounder, Gerrymandering Update: Focus on the Courts, which discussed several redistricting cases following the 2021 release of the Census Bureau’s reapportionment data. After state legislatures drew their maps, attention shifted to the judiciary to determine the constitutionality of maps drawn for both federal and state elections. Well over a year later, with less than 13 months until the November 2024 elections, several states’ maps remain contested.

Federal judges selected new congressional district lines for Alabama earlier this month after the Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s attempt to defy its June decision in Allen v. Milligan, which decided that the state must draw a second largely Black district.
Following oral argument for Alexander v. South Carolina, the Supreme Court’s majority last week expressed skepticism that the drawing of the lines for a South Carolina congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
In June in a 6-3 decision in the case of Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court rejected the “independent state legislature” theory, ruling that state lawmakers’ power under the US Constitution to control its congressional elections are not unlimited but are subject to state constitutions and state courts.

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Authors

Dr. Lori Esposito Murray

Dr. Lori Esposito Murray

Senior Fellow for National Security & Managing Director of CEO Programs

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Mallory Block

Public Policy Analyst

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Webcasts, Podcasts and Videos

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December 12, 2024 12:00 PM ET (New York)

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Upcoming Events

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December 10, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (New York) | Virtual Meeting

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The Economy Post US Election

December 10, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (New York) | Virtual Meeting

Press Releases / In the News

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