National Law Journal: The Next Big Political Case at the Supreme Court: 6 Key Questions
Paul Smith, former head of Jenner & Block’s U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice, recently stepped away from big firm life and into a constitutional case that could change political maps throughout America.
Smith of the Campaign Legal Center is counsel of record for the challengers in a partisan gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford, that the high court agreed on Monday to review next term. Partisan gerrymandering is the drawing of election district lines in a way that discriminates against a political party.