China on Monday (February 17) urged the United States to "correct its mistakes" after the U.S. State Department removed ...
Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will ...
This was the result of gerrymandering – the practice of drawing districts in a way that maximizes the seats of one party or ...
Harvard Law School held a discussion between me and Ruth Greenwood about my new book, “Aligning Election Law.” Here are some excerpts from Harvard Law Today’s writeup about the event. “The incredible ...
Redistricting in each state: How it works, what it looks like Originally, it looked like Democrats might benefit from redistricting after the 2020 census -- with lawmakers redrawing maps in large ...
Of these methods, perhaps none has proven itself to be as effective and pervasive as that of gerrymandering, the process by which legislators draw and redraw electoral districts in such a way as ...
Whitford, a case challenging Wisconsin’s legislative district lines as an unconstitutional Republican gerrymander. It’s attracted attention because many high-minded commentators have blamed ...
Gerrymandering creates districts so safe that incumbents win 98 percent of their elections. The only elections that matter are primaries, but closed primaries—in which voters must be registered ...
That’s the case now for both pieces. In the gerrymander article, I cited, among others. the work of University of Michigan political scientist Jowei Chen with computer-simulated district-drawing ...
A Supreme Court case on gerrymandering — the practice of drawing district boundaries for political advantage — could reshape the country’s political landscape. Critics say the partisan ...
Gerrymandering Could Shape the Midterms, but Reform Is Possible States are drawing new congressional district maps for the House of Representatives that could determine control of Congress.