Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2017, Volume 30, Number 3
Content
- A Transitional Center: The California Supreme Court 2016 - 2017
- Book Review of Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- Editor's Foreword: The Curtain Rises for the CLA
- From the Section Chair
- Give Your Persuasive Writing A Diamond's Sparkle
- How To Lose Your Appeal During Trial
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- MCLE Test Questions for Self-Study Test (1 hour of credit)
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- San Francisco v. Trump: Defending Our Sanctuary City
- Table of Contents
- The ABC's of the TCPA
- The Closing Statement For The Defense
- The Party Line: Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court
The Party Line: Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court
By Justin Levitt
In the rarefied Chamber of the United States Supreme Court, Justices often use oral argument to talk to each other, speaking through (and sometimes past) the litigants in order to persuade their colleagues. And now the Justices are talking in a whole new dimension: time. In one of this Term’s blockbuster cases, argued just weeks ago,
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Justice Kennedy was vigorously engaged in a continuing conversation with the ghosts of Justices past—and perhaps even more important, with Justice Kennedy, circa 2004.