All Americans can agree with at least one simple truth: Politics is messy. The Supreme Court is finding out just how messy when wading into what Justice Felix Frankfurter called the “political thicket” of partisan gerrymandering.Source: Keep judges out of this political thicket...
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WASHINGTON — For the second time this term, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday about whether voting maps can be so distorted by politics that they violate the Constitution.Source: Supreme Court Again Weighs Voting Maps Warped by Politics...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and a three-judge panel of the Middle District of Pennsylvania both ruled earlier this week that the new congressional district map drawn by the Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court could remain in effect.Source: Democrats Are Using Courts To Take Redistricting Power Away From Legislatures...
Deep in the heart of conservative Texas lies its liberal capital of Austin — a city jokingly referred to as “a blueberry in the tomato soup of Texas.” Given its left-leaning politics, it might seem strange that of Austin’s six congressional representatives, five are Republican.Source: How Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering could backfire in 2018...
Late last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling that congressional redistricting maps drawn after the 2010 census and in use for the last 3 election cycles (2012, 2014, and 2016) violated the Pennsylvania Constitution.Source: Pennsylvania Redistricting - Impeach PA Supreme Court Justices for Violating the PA Constitution?...
On Tuesday, a panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map, ruling it an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.Source: Will the Court Kill the Gerrymander?...
In the late spring of 2011, Dale Schultz walked the short block in Madison from his State Senate office in the Wisconsin Capitol to the glass-paneled building of Michael Best & Friedrich, a law firm with deep ties to his Republican Party.Source: The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math...
Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. In June, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its first partisan gerrymandering case in more than a decade. This case, Gill v.Source: The research that convinced SCOTUS to take the Wisconsin gerrymandering case, explained...
