Lamone v. Benisek
Consolidated with:
Docket No. | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
18-726 | Mar 26, 2019 | Jun 27, 2019 | 5-4 | Roberts | OT 2018 |
Holding: Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts on June 27, 2019. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor joined.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- Tom Goldstein and Sarah Harrington review past Supreme Court term with Casetexts Laura Safdie (SCOTUStalk, July 9, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: Supreme Court confirms that it will not save our maps, only voters can (Thomas Wolf, June 28, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: Finally finality from the Supreme Court on partisan gerrymandering (Justin Riemer, June 28, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: The racial implications of yesterdays partisan gerrymandering decision (Kristen Clarke and Jon Greenbaum, June 28, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: Court to foxes -- Please guard henhouse (Benjamin Battles, June 28, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: Janus-like judicial restraint in political gerrymanders and the census (Ken Klukowski, June 28, 2019)
- Gerrymandering symposium: Time to find someone else to solve partisan gerrymandering (Andrew Pinson, June 28, 2019)
- Opinion analysis: No role for courts in partisan gerrymandering (Updated) (Amy Howe, June 28, 2019)
- A view from the courtroom: With respect but deep sadness (Mark Walsh, June 27, 2019)
- The final three weeks of October term 2018 (SCOTUStalk, June 10, 2019)
- Argument analysis: Justices divided and hard to read on partisan gerrymandering (Amy Howe, March 26, 2019)
- Argument preview: Justices to tackle partisan gerrymandering again (Amy Howe, March 19, 2019)
- Symposium: Clarity of the record should bring clarity of purpose (Justin Levitt, February 11, 2019)
- Symposium: 1 First Street, NE, Punxsutawney, PA (Tyler Green, February 8, 2019)
- Symposium: Precedent dictates a win for the plaintiffs in this terms partisan-gerrymandering cases (Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer, February 7, 2019)
- Symposium: Much ado about partisan gerrymandering (Kaylan Phillips, February 7, 2019)
- Symposium: How to win the partisan-gerrymandering cases (Daniel Tokaji, February 6, 2019)
- Symposium: Why not continue the political struggle in partisan-gerrymandering cases? (Derek Muller, February 5, 2019)
- Justices to tackle partisan gerrymandering ... again: In Plain English (Amy Howe, February 4, 2019)
- Supreme Court to tackle partisan gerrymandering again (Amy Howe, January 4, 2019)