Tag: Gerrymandering
The Latest Challenge to the Voting Rights Act
OPEN: A court recent ruling recently could deliver a death blow to the Voting Rights Act - a law that has protected Black Americans’ political power t [...]
Answering Reader Questions on a Covid Effect, Gerrymandering and More
How much did coronavirus deaths, redistricting and voter suppression matter in the last election?
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Supreme Court will likely weaken, not destroy, the ban on racial gerrymandering in Merrill v. Milligan
Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a raft of ambitious arguments — many of which would dismantle one [...]
Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering in Merrill v. Milligan
Cases alleging racial gerrymandering are notoriously difficult to litigate, much less to win. And the path that brought Merrill v. Milligan to the [...]
Gerrymandering Isn’t Giving Republicans the Advantage You Might Expect
Yes, the G.O.P. has a structural edge in the House, but it isn’t anything near insurmountable for Democrats.
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How Democrats learned to love gerrymandering to avoid a biased House map in redistricting
The grinding battle over congressional redistricting is drawing to a close. And, contrary to expectations that the process would result in big Repu [...]
Cuomo pledged to end partisan gerrymandering. His plan just failed its biggest test.
That leaves the redistricting process exactly as it was a decade ago. State lawmakers are now likely to reject both of the commission’s plans and [...]
Michigan’s New Congressional Maps Undo Years of Gerrymandering
“The goal of creating partisan fairness cannot so negatively impact Black communities as to erase us from the space,” said Adam Hollier, a state se [...]
How the Suburbs Have Changed Gerrymandering
Under maps passed by Georgia’s Republican-led legislature, the bluest parts of both districts would be stuffed into the Seventh, while rural territ [...]
Opinion | Why Gerrymandering Needs to Land in State Courts
The process so far across the country shows why a remedy is so badly needed. Politicians in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Utah, and many other states [...]
How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways
In Virginia, members of a bipartisan panel were entrusted with drawing a new map of the state’s congressional districts. But politics got in the wa [...]
Gerrymandering and redistricting, explained: How political parties are trying to redraw congressional maps
Republicans are trying to gerrymander themselves into control of the House of Representatives — and they very well might succeed.
A seat in Ten [...]
Is Gerrymandering About to Change into Extra Tough?
OK, so what may you do about that? Nicely, one factor you are able to do is to make it a rule. Ohio was the primary state to do this, and it occur [...]
How Gerrymandering Will Defend Republicans Who Challenged the Election
WASHINGTON — Consultant Jim Jordan of Ohio comes from a duck-shaped district that stretches throughout components of 14 counties and 5 media market [...]
How Gerrymandering Will Shield Republicans Who Challenged the Election
WASHINGTON — Consultant Jim Jordan of Ohio comes from a duck-shaped district that stretches throughout components of 14 counties and 5 media market [...]