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Compare and contrast
You may have heard the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to decide a set of same-sex marriage cases. (See here and here, for example. You may file this tidbit under “deciding to decide.”) Let’s compare and contrast the constitutional questions presented in these pending gay marriage … Continue reading
Mathematics vs. politics (NJ edition)
These maps by the website BDistricting show two ways of dividing the Garden State into Congressional voting districts with roughly equal population. (Under Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, each State is apportioned a number of federal representatives which approximately corresponds to … Continue reading
prior probability 