Redistricting Timeline Archives
Redistricting Timeline

09/24/2012: Supreme Court reversed redistricting ruling

07/26/2012: Alabama asked federal court to approve new redistricting plan

02/28/2012: Federal court issued new Texas voting district maps

01/20/2012: Supreme Court rejected Texas redistricting maps

07/25/2008: Seventh Circuit held voting districts to do not violate rights of Latinos

03/05/2007: Supreme Court ruled no standing in Colorado redistricting case

03/23/2006: Florida Supreme Court struck down redistricting

11/08/2005: California and Ohio voters rejected redistricting proposals

08/13/2005: California Supreme Court overruled lower court decision, placed Proposition 77 back on ballot

03/31/2003: Supreme Court ruled federal courts can redraw electoral boundaries

THIS DAY @ LAW

Egypt President Anwar Sadat visits Israel

On November 19, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Israel, becoming the first leader of an Arab nation to officially visit. Two years later, President Sadat became the first Arab leader to recognize Israel by signing the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Read President Sadat's address to the Israeli Knesset.

Jay Treaty signed

On November 19, 1794, US Chief Justice John Jay and British foreign secretary Lord Grenville signed a treaty in Philadelphia under which British forces pulled out of the disputed Northwest Territory. Review the Jay Treaty.