Redistricting
State Attorneys General have long played important roles in their states’ redistricting processes and will do so again in 2020. This brief memorandum by Professors Justin Levitt of Loyola Law School and James Tierney outlines but a few of the cases in which state Attorneys General have exercised both their jurisdiction and discretion with respect to redistricting, and outlines additional roles that could emerge in the 2020 cycle.