Reading Between The Lines: Redistricting In New Jersey

On November 18, 2010, the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers will be hosting a forum on legislative reapportionment and congressional redistricting where Ben Brickner, author of a new report on congressional and state legislative redistricting, will present a summary of his report entitled "Reading Between The Lines." Participating in the panel will be former longtime Executive Director of the New Jersey Senate Democratic Office, Kathy Crotty, Evelyn Liebman, Director of Organizing and Advocacy for New Jersey Citizen Action, and Brian M. Nelson, Esq., a former Executive Director of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. The purpose of the forum is to shed more light on the reapportionment and redistricting processes in the State of New Jersey and to explore what the new legislative and Congressional maps can, and can't, be expected to accomplish.

More Important Than Election Day

A timely Sunday Star-Leger story by Matt Friedman on the pending legislative reapportionment process in New Jersey. Matt covers Benjamin Brickner's excellent paper on the process in New Jersey and other states, which even if you do not agree with Ben's recommendations, is a worthwhile read. Matt's article also covers little known facts, such as what reapportionment costs the taxpayers, and mentions, as much as a straight news article can, the impact that the United States Supreme Court's Strickland decision may have on New Jersey's mapmaking process this time around.