Can purely partisan gerrymandering — not racial gerrymandering — be unconstitutional?
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Second, partisan political gerrymandering isn't the only kind of gerrymandering going on.
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The politicians who benefit from partisan gerrymandering are unlikely to change partisan gerrymandering.
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HAHN: Are you criticizing gerrymandering but for gerrymandering there&aposd be no Republican Congress.
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Gerrymandering Roberts wrote the June 18 decision rejecting Wisconsin Democrats' claim of partisan gerrymandering.
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These two cases featured accusations of Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Democratic gerrymandering in Maryland.
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If so many minority voters vote Democrat, how do you separate partisan gerrymandering from racial gerrymandering?
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Gerrymandering: The justices will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that asks whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional.
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Gerrymandering While gerrymandering doesn't affect the presidential race, it does have a huge effect on congressional races.
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While it closes the door to claims of political gerrymandering, race-based gerrymandering remains subject to judicial review.
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Podcast: "Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court" | From The Daily (22 minutes) Shorter Article: Partisan Gerrymandering: How Much Is Too Much?
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Judges empowered by an anti-gerrymandering precedent from the Supreme Court will blunt the worst cases, but won't end gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering In the run-up to the midterms, some wild claims made the rounds about the likely impact of gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court in the past has disallowed gerrymandering intended to discriminate against racial minorities but has not curbed partisan gerrymandering.
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Sam Wang and Brian Remlinger, who run the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, recently outlined three reasons why partisan gerrymandering is getting worse.
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Gerrymandering Two major gerrymandering cases have been rejected by the Supreme Court, leaving the door open for all kinds of questions.
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Partisan gerrymandering: The court declined to take up a case of Texas partisan gerrymandering, allowing GOP-drawn congressional districts to stand.
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How decades of gerrymandering have undermined American democracy How decades of gerrymandering have undermined American democracy This segment originally aired Nov.
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Republicans have been able to do more gerrymandering mostly because they control more state governments — not because Democrats are above gerrymandering.
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Join Up With a Group Promoting Fair Elections: Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG)All About RedistrictingFair VotePublic Mapping Project: End Gerrymandering
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That ruling concerned partisan gerrymandering, while the new one was based on a finding of racial gerrymandering and violations of state law.
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In Vieth v Jubelirer, a gerrymandering case from 2004, four justices rejected the notion that courts were equipped to monitor partisan gerrymandering at all.
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While Wasserman contends that partisan gerrymandering is a problem, he and some other experts don't think all this can be blamed on extreme gerrymandering.
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The primary issue in Gill is whether partisan gerrymandering can be challenged in court at all and, if so, when is such gerrymandering unconstitutional.
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These legislators "are unlikely to change partisan gerrymandering" and because they "maintain themselves in office through partisan gerrymandering, the chances for legislative reform are slight".
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RELATED: Kavanaugh and Gorsuch deliver for Trump Calls the gerrymandering ruling 'abysmally wrong' The ideological clash over partisan gerrymandering, however, climaxed in the recent term.
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A Virginia state Democrat on Thursday accused his party of "gerrymandering in response to gerrymandering" during a special special session of the Virginia state legislature.
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The court last week heard a racial gerrymandering dispute from Virginia and, on Tuesday, a related partisan gerrymandering question in cases from Maryland and North Carolina.
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While the Supreme Court has ruled against gerrymandering intended to harm the electoral clout of racial minorities, it has never curbed gerrymandering done purely for partisan advantage.
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And even though Democrats often condemn gerrymandering as another way to disenfranchise voters, they have occasionally used gerrymandering themselves when it would advantage them to do so.
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Warren said partisan gerrymandering needs to end, and to do that Democrats have to win back power in state legislatures and be willing to fight gerrymandering in court.
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Whitford, represented by the Campaign Legal Center, will argue to the Supreme Court next month that partisan gerrymandering, like racial gerrymandering, violates voters' rights to be treated equally.
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Bandemer that claimed partisan gerrymandering is able to be subjected to judicial oversight, although the court was divided on just what constituted judicial standards in challenges to partisan gerrymandering.
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If fair gerrymandering is not a perfect solution, it is a pragmatic one that puts a constraint on the degree to which gerrymandering can be exploited by one party.
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In the area of partisan gerrymandering, for instance, Kennedy had left open the door that the court might someday articulate a manageable standard to police cases of extreme partisan gerrymandering.
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"So far, the Supreme Court has refused to stop partisan gerrymandering and has only stepped in for charges of racial gerrymandering or to ensure districts of equal population," he said.
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It may revisit these or other cases to try to settle the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering, but in the meantime, gerrymandering remains a fact of political life in most states.
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Some of these videos and articles might work well as a homework assignment to prepare students for the in-class activities below: About Gerrymandering in General Video: Gerrymandering: Crash Course Government and Politics (8 minutes) Video: Gerrymandering: How Drawing Jagged Lines Can Impact an Election | From Christina Greer (4 minutes) Video: Gerrymandering, Explained | From The Washington Post (3 minutes) About the Supreme Court Case Considering Wisconsin's Republican-Drawn District Map The Supreme Court will decide if the judicial branch should declare the worst partisan gerrymanders as unconstitutional, or if gerrymandering is a problem that only politicians — and not the courts — can resolve.
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This past summer the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, led by the mathematician Moon Duchin, convened at Tufts University, in part to discuss new mathematical tools for analyzing and addressing gerrymandering.
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" And, though state legislatures and Congress could in theory enact something, they had little incentive to do so: "The politicians who benefit from partisan gerrymandering are unlikely to change partisan gerrymandering.
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This year, in a devastating term for voting rights, the court upheld voter purging in Ohio and racial gerrymandering in Texas, while refusing to curtail partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Maryland.
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Last year, a big partisan gerrymandering case — Gill v.
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In a 2004 gerrymandering case, Kennedy wrote a concurring opinion that left the door open for courts to intervene if a "workable" standard for identifying and measuring impermissible gerrymandering could be devised.
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Partisan gerrymandering: Also by June, the court will determine whether electoral maps drawn to preserve a political advantage can cross a constitutional line, after hearing 2 cases last month challenging partisan gerrymandering.
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And when the court called them out for racial gerrymandering, they did it through partisan gerrymandering, using elections data and high-powered computers to create a map that's systemically skewed against Democrats.
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Gerrymandering of legislative districts has received significant attention in the courts and in the public, and one graphic designer has now created a gerrymandering-themed font to raise awareness about fair electoral maps.
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The first case of gerrymandering occurred in 1810 in Massachusetts.
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So, he argues, gerrymandering is no excuse for Democratic losses.
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"Our conclusion does not condone excessive partisan gerrymandering," he wrote.
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And he can do that in the partisan gerrymandering cases.
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In Michigan 61% of voters chose to end partisan gerrymandering.
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Washington's institutions amplify the sounds emitted from state partisan gerrymandering.
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References to the DOJ's work on racial gerrymandering are gone.
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Because they aggregate groups of voters, they make gerrymandering ineffective.
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Those nine seats, however, show that extreme gerrymandering is risky.
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Several courts have ruled that partisan gerrymandering can be unconstitutional.
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Gerrymandering is nothing new; it's been happening since the 1800s.
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States are where the next gerrymandering battle will play out.
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Enacting legislation to establish independent redistricting commissions to tackle gerrymandering.
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Benisek is the court's second look this term at gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering means members of Congress rarely face legitimately contested elections.
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There are many ways to measure the partisanship of gerrymandering.
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"Gerrymandering is the biggest rigged system in America," she said.
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Where it stands: The dam has broken on partisan gerrymandering.
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Journalists typically describe gerrymandering as a contest between political parties.
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Republicans primarily benefited from gerrymandering after the nation's last census.
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But they consistently voted against one thing on Tuesday: gerrymandering.
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With antitrust gerrymandering, tech history also goes to the dustbin.
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Precisely because of gerrymandering at the state level, as Ed
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Fair gerrymandering will work better the larger a state is.
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He also complained about gerrymandering in Virginia on Thursday night.
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Some of those differences can be chalked up to gerrymandering.
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THIS A.M. -- I'LL TAKE 'WHAT IS GERRYMANDERING FOR $500, ALEX.
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Most importantly, both have taken a proactive stance against gerrymandering.
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As president, banning partisan gerrymandering will be a top priority.
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She would also prohibit political gerrymandering and boost election security.
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But Costello's district is daunting for Republicans after the gerrymandering.
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Go deeper: Punts on partisan gerrymandering turn attention to N.C.
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Alabama that the Supreme Court reversed on racial gerrymandering claims.
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To the Editor: To stop gerrymandering, I suggest the following.
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But his district is daunting for Republicans after the gerrymandering.
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She wrote on Facebook that she wanted to end gerrymandering.
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Common Cause amounts to a blank check for partisan gerrymandering.
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Mr. Holder wants to continue focusing on ending gerrymandering. Mrs.
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The Supreme Court is considering a gerrymandering case in Wisconsin.
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"There is no partisan gerrymandering exception to federalism," they wrote.
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Gerrymandering is often blamed for our political system's current polarization.
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It also took on a major case about partisan gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering, to be clear, is not a uniquely Republican sin.
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"We've proven that gerrymandering can be permanently terminated," he added.
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Racial gerrymandering has already been struck down by the court.
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Schwarzenegger, 70, has long pushed for an end to gerrymandering.
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Partisan gerrymandering would be essential to their path to victory.
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Perhaps they will, even if gerrymandering makes it much harder.
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Both parties use gerrymandering to cement their hold on power.
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In recent years, though, partisan gerrymandering has gotten much worse.
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But the gerrymandering wall now has a lot more holes.
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Common Cause, a crushing defeat for opponents of partisan gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering to dilute minority voters' power has long been illegal.
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That's yet another reason for a federal law restricting gerrymandering.
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The loss is likely also the downside of Republican gerrymandering.
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Used our Crowdpac communities to launch his Terminate Gerrymandering campaign.
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Despite voicing concerns about the dangers to democracy posed by gerrymandering in two redistricting hearings, Justice Kavanaugh anchored a 5-4 majority in Rucho v Common Cause to preserve extreme gerrymandering from constitutional objections.
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It would solve the substantive problem of excessive partisan gerrymandering and the procedural problem of how to avoid excessive policing of partisan gerrymandering and solve the other dilemmas of redistricting at the same time.
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On partisan gerrymandering, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined the majority opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts declaring that federal courts have no role to police extreme partisan gerrymandering, slamming the courthouse doors shut to such claims.
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Stop gerrymandering, the shaping of congressional districts to guarantee electoral outcomes.
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Still, gerrymandering particularly infuriates many voters because it feels so unfair.
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American politicians have been gerrymandering districts for more than 200 years.
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But Thursday's ruling dashed hopes for new limits nationwide on gerrymandering.
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Read more: These midterm victories will expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering
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That's because Republicans took gerrymandering to a new level after 2010.
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But Democrats are battling a deeper structural problem than partisan gerrymandering.
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Thursday's decision ends the gerrymandering challenges in North Carolina and Maryland.
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Gerrymandering is made even easier by another electoral abuse called malapportionment.
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Some contend it also provides a blueprint for future gerrymandering challenges.
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"Gerrymandering drains away competitive districts," Daley told me in an email.
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Gerrymandering is so extreme that our legislatures are no longer democratic.
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Extreme partisan gerrymandering reached new levels during the 2011 redistricting process.
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This decision will make racial gerrymandering more difficult in the future.
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Years of gerrymandering have doubled the size of the state assembly.
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Then, he railed against the Electoral College, voter suppression, and gerrymandering.
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Besides this, antitrust gerrymandering is a convenient way to snub data.
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The worst of antitrust gerrymandering has, however, to do with logic.
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When the antitrust gerrymandering tool is used, competition policy goes awry.
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The partisan gerrymandering complaints in those three states had real merits.
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Gerrymandering should be front and center in the elections of 2020.
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Indeed, last night the power of gerrymandering in Wisconsin showed through.
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This heightened concern about gerrymandering is also being felt in Florida.
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And both parties routinely engage in partisan gerrymandering to secure seats.
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Few think partisan gerrymandering is an attractive feature of American democracy.
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Gerrymandering is not the only reason Democrats are at a disadvantage.
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He wants nonpartisan commissions, not gerrymandering politicos, to draw electoral districts.
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After all, Democrats recaptured the House in November despite partisan gerrymandering.
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Partisan gerrymandering is, on its face, an obviously anti-democratic practice.
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Two, the country still needs a federal law to restrict gerrymandering.
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"With gerrymandering, people see that their vote doesn't matter," she said.
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And it declined to take up a North Carolina gerrymandering case.
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"I'd like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan," Ms. Fahey wrote.
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The case is part of a larger debate over political gerrymandering.
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North Carolina's Republican-leaning gerrymandering was apparent in recent election results.
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Gerrymandering is not the reason state legislatures are becoming more Republican.
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" Partisan gerrymandering violates this "cornerstone of our democratic form of government.
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Gerrymandering wasn't as big of a deal as many had feared.
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Brunell, a registered Republican, has criticized partisan gerrymandering in his work.
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"Politicians are never going to fix gerrymandering," Smith said in court.
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Now, Wisconsin is arguing that partisan gerrymandering happens all the time.
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Several justices said the evidence of extreme partisan gerrymandering was strong.
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ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING -- SCOTUS TAKES UP GERRYMANDERING CASE: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Wisconsin's appeal of a lower court ruling that found its 2011 state redistricting plan was unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering.
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During arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about the case of extreme partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin, Chief Justice John Roberts offered a troubling and extraordinary statement suggesting why he may vote to uphold even hyperpartisan gerrymandering.
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That's an impressive victory in the face of gerrymandering and incumbency advantages.
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But now, deliberate gerrymandering has given Democrats a structural disadvantage there, too.
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Gerrymandering wasn't new, but nothing on this scale had been attempted before.
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The concept of "wasted votes" is crucial to understanding and challenging gerrymandering.
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And gerrymandering isn't something new that's popped up in this hyperpartisan environment.
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Gerrymandering is a practice dating back two centuries in the United States.
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The story of how gerrymandering got its name is actually pretty interesting.
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Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral boundaries to gain a political advantage.
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Coupled with gerrymandering, mass incarceration is the single greatest obstruction to democracy.
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"With gerrymandering you're kind of taking away power from others," says Alvin.
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Gerrymandering had already helped to assure Republican supermajorities in the state legislature.
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That looks a stretch, given how few competitive seats gerrymandering has left.
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The court's four liberal justices indicated more sympathy toward hearing gerrymandering challenges.
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Over the decades, both Republicans and Democrats have been accused of gerrymandering.
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That means Republicans inherently have the upper hand in the gerrymandering game.
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As the omnipresence of gerrymandering shows, good faith may not be enough.
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Brian Remlinger is a statistical research specialist at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
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He'll be talking about gerrymandering -- something that's very important to Democrats particularly.
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On top of that, the court will hear a partisan gerrymandering case.
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This is the second time justices have acted on gerrymandering this year.
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As governor he approved a Republican-friendly gerrymandering of Ohio's congressional districts.
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All five of the justices in the gerrymandering majority ran as Democrats.
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The alternative is to improve the tools used to identify partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court is taking another crack at partisan gerrymandering on Tuesday.
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Only gerrymandering kept our Rainbow Wave from giving us even more seats.
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As long as we have single-member districts, we will have gerrymandering.
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But that view betrays a misunderstanding of how partisan gerrymandering actually works.
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But the state's justification was that the gerrymandering was partisan, not racial.
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Gerrymandering and voter suppression are despicable practices aimed at rigging the system.
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The case deals with partisan gerrymandering, a key issue for both men.
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Now, at least, partisan gerrymandering challenges can live on for another day.
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What was more important to Republican political dominance: gerrymandering or conservative media?
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Gerrymandering, at the end of the day, is a perk of power.
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Republicans drew themselves a giant firewall in the US House through gerrymandering.
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Such concerns also support the Gill plaintiffs' challenge to extreme partisan gerrymandering.
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"It's an uphill battle," Mr. Obama conceded, citing gerrymandering among other challenges.
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In other words, gerrymandering has the power to distort a democratic system.
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And in Wisconsin, one million people are without power because of gerrymandering.
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And Texas Republican gerrymandering could come back to bite them in 2018.
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They'll continue to face gerrymandering that creates a natural advantage for Republicans.
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The court noted that it was not condoning or endorsing partisan gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering remains a problem in other blue states, like Illinois and Maryland.
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Holder (2013), voter purges, minority vote suppression and extreme gerrymandering have accelerated.
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An exercise in ruthless gerrymandering in a state already known for it.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that racial gerrymandering can violate the Constitution.
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There are other ways to stop the worst excesses of partisan gerrymandering.
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That statement has proved to be the rallying cry for gerrymandering opponents.
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Racist gerrymandering was reconfiguring voting districts to favor one party or another.
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A gerrymandering case will be argued before the Supreme Court in October.
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What is gerrymandering, and why did the Supreme Court rule on it?
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Voters would benefit from less gerrymandering and, perhaps, better Election Day choices.
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So I say it's time to say hasta la vista to gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court has not yet decided what, exactly, constitutes unconstitutional gerrymandering.
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That's due to aggressive Republican gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Given the state's history with gerrymandering, that process will be closely watched.
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This "bulk gerrymandering" practice is easy to detect, and easy to cure.
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The big three for me are gerrymandering, closed primaries, and big money.
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But it makes our concern with practices like gerrymandering harder to articulate.
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But if so, it won't be because of his views on gerrymandering.
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The case opens a second front in the war over partisan gerrymandering.
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In November, anti-gerrymandering ballot measures passed in Colorado, Michigan and Missouri.
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"Extreme partisan gerrymandering is a real problem for our democracy," he said.
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In almost all states, less gerrymandering would make the electoral system fairer.
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The case is one of several nationwide challenging so-called partisan gerrymandering.
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In addition to cases over wedding cakes (addressing religious liberty and nondiscrimination laws) and elections (from partisan gerrymandering to racial gerrymandering) the court has now agreed to hear arguments this spring over Trump's third attempt at his travel ban.
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Even the former Democratic governor, Martin O'Malley, said the district was gerrymandered, but it was ok because it was in response to Republican gerrymandering and, anyway, he is now all for the Supreme Court to rule against all gerrymandering.
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" The brief from current and former House members noted that Mr. Reagan had referred to gerrymandering in 1987 as "a national scandal" and called for "an end to the anti-democratic and un-American practice of gerrymandering congressional districts.
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Make sure to watch our video on gerrymandering to see how that works.
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But thanks to gerrymandering, the GOP still held a majority of the seats.
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The unexpected ray of hope comes from a partisan gerrymandering case in Wisconsin.
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The term gerrymandering is also sometimes used to describe somewhat different redistricting scenarios.
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It's only in the single-member districts where gerrymandering is worth the effort.
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One thing you have to admire about gerrymandering: It's got some wicked slang.
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Roberts suggested instead that states and Congress could pass legislation on partisan gerrymandering.
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But even a moderate gerrymandering reform has been a rare thing this decade.
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The Court's upcoming partisan gerrymandering cases will test whether Roberts deserves that accolade.
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"Republican legislators shrewdly accepted that momentum was building against partisan gerrymandering," he writes.
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Many people were surprised that Dr Mahathir managed to win, despite UMNO's gerrymandering.
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One rejiggered voting districts so drastically that the opposition derided it as gerrymandering.
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In recent years, similar gerrymandering cases have split justices neatly along ideological lines.
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The case could have far-reaching effects on gerrymandering cases across the country.
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Once given the vote, it has been systematically diluted, often through purposeful gerrymandering.
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Go deeper: Supreme Court says partisan gerrymandering "beyond the reach" of federal courts
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This gerrymandering is not a new phenomenon; it got its name in 1812.
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None of the justices seems to enjoy handling a raft of gerrymandering complaints.
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Some legal scholars argue that intentional gerrymandering has exacerbated the partisanship within statehouses.
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What about gerrymandering — the cause of much Democratic handwringing, not to mention lawsuits?
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The partisan gerrymandering cases are among the most consequential cases before the justices.
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Told not to racially discriminate, the Legislature simply resorted to blatant partisan gerrymandering.
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Federal courts have previously ruled that maps that employ "racial gerrymandering" are unconstitutional.
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Gerrymandering hadn't yet pulled the Republican Party to the right of Genghis Khan.
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Reining in partisan gerrymandering wouldn't undo the damage wrought by those two decisions.
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But, thanks to gerrymandering, work requirements are waived in these 18 counties entirely.
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Kennedy, however, said nothing about the reliability of the various measures of gerrymandering.
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Many have been meeting at workshops organized by the Metric Geometry Gerrymandering Group.
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The suit isn't the first time Common Cause has sued over partisan gerrymandering.
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That makes prison gerrymandering a uniquely distortive force compared to soldiers and students.
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Every sign that doesn't have to do with gerrymandering points to a blowout.
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If gerrymandering is wrong in Michigan it must also be wrong in Maryland.
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Charles Lane: Progressives should be glad they lost the Supreme Court gerrymandering case.
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In spite of the troubling Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling we continue to fight.
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In spite of the troubling Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling we continue to fight.
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Five states last year attempted to limit gerrymandering (with varying degrees of success).
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The Wisconsin and Maryland cases have helped spark unprecedented activism around partisan gerrymandering.
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Independent re-districting commissions can and should be used to end deliberate gerrymandering.
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Another partisan gerrymandering case out of North Carolina is pending before the court.
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Gerrymandering isn't the only way modern Republicans have tried to nullify Democratic votes.
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When given the opportunity, both Democrats and Republicans have engaged in partisan gerrymandering.
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What distinguished the post-2010 wave of Republican gerrymandering was its sheer aggressiveness.
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One of them, on political gerrymandering, has the potential to reshape American politics.
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And it will end partisan gerrymandering to prevent politicians from picking their voters.
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The Court has found that racial gerrymandering can violate the Constitution as well.
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They flipped the House despite the advantage Republicans secured for themselves through gerrymandering.
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Retirements and reversals in gerrymandering give Democrats a clearer path to a majority.
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I think we've got to drive a stake through the heart of gerrymandering.
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Only a decade ago, partisan gerrymandering appeared all but a dead legal issue.
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Democrats have blamed the Senate, the Electoral College and gerrymandering for their disadvantage.
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At the core of the debate is a new way to measure gerrymandering.
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The spectacular corruption of the electoral redistricting system — gerrymandering — only compounds the problem.
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What's more, the electoral landscape is tilted against them for reasons besides gerrymandering.
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So the Maryland case added nothing to our understanding of partisan gerrymandering doctrine.
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Maybe we could focus on the real problems: voter suppression and partisan gerrymandering.
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Common Cause (2019), in which the Court ruled it can't stop partisan gerrymandering.
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Last year, the Supreme Court heard a similar political gerrymandering case in Wisconsin.
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One of the biggest issues of the term, for example, concerns partisan gerrymandering.
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But he declined to say that Democrats should eschew gerrymandering of their own.
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We're going to terminate gerrymandering together by fighting for campaigns in four states.
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They're asking the justices to say that extreme gerrymandering can go too far.
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In the gerrymandering case, Chief Justice Roberts voted with the other Republican appointees.
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North Carolina suffers from some of the most extreme gerrymandering in the country.
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There are no longer direct references to redistricting or racial gerrymandering, BuzzFeed reported.
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In contrast to our union, gerrymandering actually has grown more perfect with time.
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Where I would like to see that energy happen is in gerrymandering reform.
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Gerrymandering continues to make the votes of some Americans count more than others.
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The unsigned decision sidestepped a major ruling on the practice called partisan gerrymandering.
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Two other cases challenging partisan gerrymandering are working their way through lower courts.
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The emphasis on health benefits over political gerrymandering should be applied in Florida.
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It's important to note that both parties have abused gerrymandering in recent years.
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Obama has teamed up with his former attorney general to take on gerrymandering.
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They mostly sided with the state of Texas in a racial gerrymandering lawsuit.
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Hank Johnson told reporters, Pelosi isn't at fault for the existence of gerrymandering.
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Former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderEric Holder, Scott Walker spar over gerrymandering: 'Scotty doesn't like' the facts Obama introduces new initiative in fight against gerrymandering Juan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts MORE and former Wisconsin Gov.
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But the action by the justices was not unexpected as they weigh two other gerrymandering cases - one from North Carolina and the other from Maryland - that could decide definitively whether federal judges have the power to intervene to curb partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court on Monday handed Democrats a win in Virginia racial gerrymandering case.
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Gerrymandering is when politicians manipulate voting district boundaries to favor one party over another.
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The court is due to decide a new round of gerrymandering cases this week.
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"The final goal is to prevent another round of extreme Republican gerrymandering," she said.
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The unanimous rulings did not foreclose future claims that partisan gerrymandering violates the constitution.
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Second, the People's Action Party wins elections based on broad nationwide support, not gerrymandering.
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Political parties see profit in gerrymandering districts to make them super-safe, he sighs.
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Warren would eliminate gerrymandering, putting independent commissions in charge of districting for federal elections.
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There are no moorings for a judicial foray into the waters of partisan gerrymandering.
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Nonetheless, Republicans won a majority of House seats due to gerrymandering and favorable geography.
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As Jonathan Ladd has written, gerrymandering is not a very useful concept in itself.
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Voting rights activists have filed another lawsuit in July to challenge North Carolina's gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering is familiar to Americans, of course, but it happens at the state level.
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In Jordan gerrymandering ensures that East Bank Bedouin get the lion's share of seats.
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This is probably the closest to a textbook case of gerrymandering you can get.
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Another appears to be run by Arnold Schwarzenegger in an effort to combat gerrymandering.
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Challenges to partisan gerrymandering need not, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "echo into a void".
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The Supreme Court is no closer to settling whether extreme partisan gerrymandering is constitutional.
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Religious liberty and partisan gerrymandering Two cases in particular this term showcase Kennedy's role.
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If we want to eliminate or minimize gerrymandering, we must eliminate or minimize districting.
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I'd add automatic voter registration and anti-gerrymandering reforms at the state level, too.
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As director of an anti-gerrymandering initiative in Pennsylvania, I'm familiar with the riffs.
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Gerrymandering is a key reason that Americans hold such a dim view of Congress.
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That said, opponents of gerrymandering, in red and blue states, have identified alternative strategies.
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The Obama video follows a series of gerrymandering and redistricting challenges around the country.
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Gerrymandering is a time-honored practice of both parties—look at Maryland's House delegation.
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Gerrymandering occurs when legislatures draw districts to benefit one political party over the other.
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Gerrymandering controlled by Republicans will enable them to protect districts from a blue wave.
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Still, what remains to be seen is the actual impact of gerrymandering on midterms.
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A ruling, expected soon, could impose limits on gerrymandering or let it continue unchecked.
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With the help of gerrymandering, Republicans also maintained veto-proof majorities in the legislature.
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He could also put money behind efforts to curb gerrymandering and block ballot access.
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"They get elected using racial gerrymandering, then enact policies that affect everybody," he said.
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End partisan gerrymandering, enact same-day voter registration and a new Voting Rights Act.
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It also could condone political gerrymandering and put by employers, landlords and business owners.
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If their responses demonstrate concern about gerrymandering, then they might want to get involved.
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One obstacle in the fight against gerrymandering is finding a way to measure it.
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Bret: That's why we need gerrymandering, Gail, as a check on your pesky demographics!
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And Michelle Goldberg ticks off Republicans' other electoral advantages, like gerrymandering and the Senate.
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The opinion also applies to a separate but similar partisan gerrymandering case, Lamone v.
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This is known as gerrymandering, the act of manipulating electoral boundaries for political gain.
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Until now, this argument seemed to give an out for allegations of racial gerrymandering.
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And the Supreme Court still thinks gerrymandering can be fixed through the political process?
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Now progressive Asheville believes gerrymandering has locked its residents out of the Washington conversation.
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The regulations would raise the thresholds for investment and eliminate the option of gerrymandering.
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Republicans have also come under fire for legislative gerrymandering in states like North Carolina.
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In Missouri, 62 percent of voters approved a law to reduce corruption and gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering, which is a hot topic today, wasn't a major focus of the conversation.
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Gerrymandering is a big problem for Democrats in Pennsylvania but not their only one.
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The efficiency gap is an elegant way to quantify the extent of partisan gerrymandering.
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He said partisan gerrymandering had contributed to toxic polarization in the House of Representatives.
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With the country having only two, highly competitive parties, aggressive gerrymandering is almost inevitable.
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Former President Obama announced on Monday the Redistricting U initiative to tackle partisan gerrymandering.
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Their state legislature and U.S. House advantages are based largely on successful gerrymandering efforts.
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It could have started to develop a robust right to vote and limited gerrymandering.
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The Obamas have long pushed for increased voter participation and fought against partisan gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering used to be an art, but advanced computation has made it a science.
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But on Monday, he joined Justice Alito's dissent saying that partisan gerrymandering was lawful.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case in October on gerrymandering.
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Kennedy could join this group and simply shut the door on partisan gerrymandering challenges.
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Steyer also calls for an end to partisan gerrymandering and reforming the electoral college.
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The effects of extreme partisan gerrymandering and stringent voter-ID laws would be amplified.
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Voters in Arizona, California and Michigan have recently approved ballot measures to reduce gerrymandering.
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The Supremes, by the way, have never ruled partisan gerrymandering to be unconstitutional. 5.
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"...Partisan gerrymandering runs contrary to numerous fundamental democratic principles and individual rights," he wrote.
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Cillizza: The North Carolina ruling seems to make clear that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional.
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The bad news for democracy is that we're better at gerrymandering than ever before.
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The "Predator" star has made headlines lately for his vocal opposition to partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court has acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymandering is "incompatible with democratic principles".
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If gerrymandering is all-important, it's hard to explain how REDMAP ever got anywhere.
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Pennsylvania was considered one of the strongest examples of partisan gerrymandering in the country.
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Second, Brunell's book represents a valuable corrective to much of the literature on gerrymandering.
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The justices also are airing two partisan gerrymandering cases, from Maryland and North Carolina.
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The Supreme Court already heard arguments in one partisan gerrymandering case out of Wisconsin.
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Extreme gerrymandering breaks up natural communities into bits and pieces separated into different districts.
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But the Republicans' tenuous grip on the House is exposing the limits of gerrymandering.
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Some, like ending partisan gerrymandering and getting rid of the Senate filibuster, are familiar.
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The Court also unanimously dismissed a separate suit over gerrymandering in Maryland, Benisek v.
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The statistics in the recent gerrymandering cases were more complicated, but not by much.
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Gerrymandering and a money disadvantage will likely make the lift a little more difficult.
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I think there is a visceral reaction when you talk about gerrymandering in Pennsylvania.
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Liberal and conservative justices alike have criticized gerrymandering as a form of partisan skullduggery.
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One court watcher, University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald, told The Hill that while the ruling bodes well for limiting racial gerrymandering, the dissent could tip the hand of Kennedy, seen as the swing vote in future cases on partisan gerrymandering.
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Math (2900 words) _________ Shapes, Geometry and Gerrymandering A fun way to introduce students to the subject of gerrymandering is to have them describe what shapes they see in some of the most contorted districts — like they might do when looking at clouds.
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Republicans in North Carolina have resorted to every trick in the book to prevent people from voting: racial gerrymandering, partisan gerrymandering, voter purging, reducing early voting days, moving the names of Democrats down the ballot, and now this latest form of voter intimidation.
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If Evers wins, he'll be able to try to roll back GOP gerrymandering in Wisconsin.
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We should adopt the Fair Representation Act to end gerrymandering and move toward proportional representation.
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The problem now Laura, is due to a lot of gerrymandering in hyper partisan districts.
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That's called partison gerrymandering, and it's how you end up with oddly shaped congressional districts.
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Because one of the districts looked like a salamander, partisan maps became known as gerrymandering.
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Each case is about gerrymandering — the process of drawing district lines based on political motivations.
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The Wisconsin case hinged on a new way to measure the discriminatory effect of gerrymandering.
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In this case, the Republican legislators were accused of racial gerrymandering to disadvantage black voters.
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The bottom line: Whichever party prevails in 2020 won't guarantee the end of partisan gerrymandering.
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Relatedly, but not identically, you'd basically eliminate gerrymandering as a factor in American public affairs.
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The big picture: This news comes amid a growing national movement to curb partisan gerrymandering.
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Bandemer, a majority of the Supreme Court found that partisan gerrymandering was a justiciable problem.
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Pundits tend to focus on GOP gerrymandering, which certainly bolsters Republicans' edge in the House.
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Segal realized they could really make a difference when a video about gerrymandering went viral.
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Pennsylvania's contests took place under new district boundaries, after a court over-ruled Republican gerrymandering.
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It also pledges to get rid of gerrymandering and make Election Day a federal holiday.
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This somewhat frenzied attempt of cultural gerrymandering culminates in two exhibitions in Munich in 1937.
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But then America, with its gerrymandering and pork-barrel spending, has a rich political vocabulary.
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Gerrymandering has already been weaponised by sophisticated computer modelling, but we haven't seen anything yet.
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But to ascribe this situation to gerrymandering is to miss much larger issues about polarization.
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He's co-written a book about money in politics, and been out front on gerrymandering.
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But you might not know why the Texas Gerrymandering Case is such a big deal.
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But the work of ending illegal gerrymandering is critical to the future of our democracy.
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The justices heard a similar gerrymandering case in 2017, but ultimately dodged the central question.
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Grassroots groups are also organizing nationwide to fight gerrymandering in their own states and districts.
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Cases challenging partisan gerrymandering and affirmative action are already making their way to the court.
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The midterm ballots in Michigan, Missouri, and Utah will also include initiatives to counter gerrymandering.
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Here, too, the court had an opportunity to lay down a marker on partisan gerrymandering.
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The challengers will also do well to consider the latest mathematical research on partisan gerrymandering.
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From a Kaganologist's point of view, the significance of her fervent gerrymandering dissent was twofold.
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Last term, Kagan read from the bench a dissent in a case about partisan gerrymandering.
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"Flipping the house despite all the gerrymandering was no small feat," singer John Legend tweeted.
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The decision on Monday marked yet another step by the Supreme Court on gerrymandering cases.
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The Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision will have drastic consequences for the future of our nation.
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But, however the court comes out, the fight against gerrymandering will be far from over.
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Ultimately, tackling partisan gerrymandering will require a sustained effort from jurists, legislators and citizens' groups.
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Furthermore, the lack of political will has little to do with the problem of gerrymandering.
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He's especially proud of Attn:'s video about the less-than-thrilling topic of gerrymandering.
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The decisive vote probably belongs to Justice Kennedy, who has expressed uneasiness about partisan gerrymandering.
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And big cases are in the pipeline, including ones on gerrymandering, gay rights and immigration.
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There is good reason to hope the court will finally set bounds on partisan gerrymandering.
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In the gerrymandering case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined his usual conservative allies.
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Partisan gerrymandering is just one of the reasons the Democrats are at such a disadvantage.
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Good news: The gerrymandering plan in New Jersey — pushed by Democrats — appears to have died.
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"Oh, and by the way, you'll also change voting rights and gerrymandering along the way."
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Democrats in the Garden State are attempting to, essentially, write gerrymandering into the State Constitution.
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But the true breakthrough in Whitford isn't that plaintiffs have finally managed to quantify gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering, a particularly American practice, allows Republicans to amplify their advantages in the political map.
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The real estate industry also games the system by using the dark arts of gerrymandering.
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The difference matters because the Supreme Court has said only racial gerrymandering is constitutionally suspect.
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Winning state legislatures and gerrymandering districts were central to their strategy to pass abortion restrictions.
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The Supreme Court also this term heard a Wisconsin case on partisan gerrymandering, Gill v.
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The Party used its hour upon the stage to push through a round of gerrymandering.
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The only thing the Supreme Court can do now is fight partisan gerrymandering, Carter said.
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But gerrymandering is most potent, at least at the congressional level, in large swing states.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) for an op-ed he penned discussing widespread gerrymandering across the country.
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"Now — finally — the era of Republican gerrymandering in the state is coming to an end."
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Also, the fight over gerrymandering moves to the next stage, and it's a worrisome one.
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"Right now, we are in the ground zero of gerrymandering in Michigan," Democratic State Rep.
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In Missouri, some legislators have pushed to subvert a ballot initiative that would reduce gerrymandering.
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"Courts have a critical role to play in curbing partisan gerrymandering," Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
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State legislatures, which oversee everything from infrastructure to gerrymandering to abortion laws, are particularly important.
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In partisan gerrymandering, one political party draws legislative districts to weaken the other party's voters.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear cases over allegations that Texas's redistricting efforts violated voting rights laws and the Constitution — adding high-profile racial gerrymandering cases to a term that already includes at least two cases about how courts can address partisan gerrymandering.
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Racial gerrymandering in its modern context is a form of partisan gerrymandering: Black and Hispanic voters tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, a phenomenon that helped re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 even as he received only 39 percent of the white vote.
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Population growth and accelerating diversity favour the Democrats, but those trends can be blunted with gerrymandering.
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Critics in both parties have said gerrymandering distorts democracy by stifling large segments of the electorate.
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His replacement, Brett Kavanaugh, will likely join his conservative colleagues in refusing to limit partisan gerrymandering.
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That's why a win of the governorship is so important for Democrats in reversing Michigan's gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering in states controlled by Republicans makes it more difficult for Democrats to retake the House.
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The impasse over partisan gerrymandering was first on display when the court heard arguments on Oct.
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Roberts said he believes this ruling does not mean there cannot be limits on partisan gerrymandering.
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Widespread gerrymandering fuels the perception that politicians pick their voters, instead of voters picking their politicians.
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The justices last year failed to deliver a definitive ruling on the legality of partisan gerrymandering.
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It also makes decisions with far-reaching political implications: What limits can be set on gerrymandering?
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The justices have never settled on a standard by which partisan gerrymandering claims can be measured.
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But curbs on gerrymandering may be imposed "if some limited and precise rationale" one day emerges.
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In the most recent substantial case, the justices last month prohibited legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering.
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This is partly due to "gerrymandering": drawing electoral districts so as to favour a particular party.
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If gerrymandering means the creation of any noncompetitive district, then sure, that describes Colorado's First District.
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The fractured, rudderless opposition does not have the winning combination to overcome UMNO's gerrymandering and harassment.
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Of course, Democratic-run states are also guilty of gerrymandering, just look at states like Maryland.
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States like California and Arizona have already terminated gerrymandering by excluding politicians from the redistricting process.
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Some liberal justices wondered what would happen to voters if partisan gerrymandering made election results preordained.
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FiveThirtyEight provides longer-form pieces on those topics, like gerrymandering and changing demographics of political parties.
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But it could make it easier for people to challenge gerrymandering in the years to come.
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"If it recognizes partisan gerrymandering, it'll be a complete and total flood of litigation," he said.
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Today, it's gerrymandering and partisan sorting that produce uncompetitive inter-party contests much of the time.
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According to Kagan, plaintiffs could argue that partisan gerrymandering violated First Amendment right to free association.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court opted not to address the substantive issues surrounding extreme partisan gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering, for instance, appears to be a problem that only the courts, if anyone, can solve.
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And even if they did, officials say, partisan gerrymandering claims aren't disputes that courts can consider.
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Earlier this month, he helped turn back an effort to establish constitutional limits on partisan gerrymandering.
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Partisan gerrymandering also has a bipartisan fix through independent redistricting commissions, adopted already in several jurisdictions.
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Include too few, and you might be unconsciously (or deliberately) gerrymandering evidence in your own favor.
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Some states can prevent prison-based gerrymandering by simply counting incarcerated people at their home addresses.
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Rucho, the other case set to be argued this term, sprang from North Carolina's gerrymandering wars.
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Former President Obama on Monday announced a new initiative in a campaign to combat partisan gerrymandering.
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That's what happened in the 2004 gerrymandering case, which is why the issue is back now.
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A graphic designer has now created a gerrymandering-themed font to raise awareness about fair maps.
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The new Ugly Gerry font isn't the first novelty product released to raise awareness about gerrymandering.
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The difference matters because the Supreme Court has said that only racial gerrymandering is constitutionally suspect.
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Larger multi-winner districts with ranked-choice voting would be a better way to end gerrymandering.
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Only gerrymandering helped Najib's UMNO party stay in power in 2013, despite losing the popular vote.
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In its history, the court has never struck down a voting map due to partisan gerrymandering.
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There's gerrymandering, for example, which is an affront to the one-vote-for-one-person principle.
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And Justice Kennedy's ultimate view on whether and how gerrymandering can be challenged remains a mystery.
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Extreme partisan gerrymandering turns democracy into a zero-sum game that undermines political compromise and accountability.
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This is important because it's the first time a federal court has ruled on partisan gerrymandering.
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So gerrymandering never happens and people (even homeless people) can easily exercise their right to vote.
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Over all, most districts shifted to the left, despite structural disadvantages Democrats faced, like partisan gerrymandering.
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Regardless, reforms of gerrymandering could help give voters more of a choice in who represents them.
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In other words, there's just not much reason to believe gerrymandering is the main culprit here.
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Over all, gerrymandering probably gives the Republicans about 10 more seats than they would have otherwise.
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We are partly responsible for the fact that the Republicans have been successful at gerrymandering. Why?
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But it flies in the face of Democrats' frustration at extreme gerrymandering by the other side.
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Whether the Supreme Court justices agree that gerrymandering needs to be curtailed remains an open question.
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By assuring incumbents of re-election, gerrymandering relieves them of worrying about what their voters think.
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Congressional Democrats are also pushing census participation as a way to combat gerrymandering and voter suppression.
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Partisan gerrymandering is a key reason millions of Americans feel the government is rigged against them.
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That alone is a very strong indication that gerrymandering isn't the main cause of political polarization.
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Under Roberts, the Supreme Court also foiled a decade-long effort to rein in partisan gerrymandering.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional.
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It's the second time this term that the justices have weighed the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering.
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Michigan's political gerrymandering is one of the most extreme examples in the nation, studies have found.
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But before the courts weigh in, it's time to end the last debate over partisan gerrymandering.
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Jubelirer, three Democrats in Pennsylvania sued the Republican-controlled Assembly for gerrymandering the state's congressional maps.
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Control of the House, though, is entirely possible, even with all the gerrymandering that has occurred.
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That included gerrymandering issues, "one person, one vote" requirements and compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
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Democrats blame GOP gerrymandering in 2010 for their inability to make significant gains in the House.
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To fully address the threat of gerrymandering, both Congress and the state legislatures need to act.
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For more … "Cracks are finally showing in the G.O.P.'s gerrymandering wall," Vox's Ian Millhiser wrote.
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Left unchecked, partisan gerrymandering could lead to permanent and profoundly undemocratic changes to the Constitution itself.
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Smith viewed Kavanaugh as likely voting with the court's most conservative justices to reject gerrymandering challenges.
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"Partisan gerrymandering weakens citizen power, promotes gridlock and stifles meaningful reform," Wolf said in a statement.
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And his efforts will come atop a foundation of state-level GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression.
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Some were watered down by court decisions, while others are endangered by new anti-gerrymandering laws.
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Smaller states have too few districts for gerrymandering to impact more than one or two seats.
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I think this is an intended effect of extreme gerrymandering, especially when cities are divided up.
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The simplest way to see gerrymandering is to compare the current House to the previous one.
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And other than Kennedy, who seemed torn, the Republican justices were willing to uphold gerrymandering plans.
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I continue to think a federal law to restrict gerrymandering is the best long-term plan.
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In the longer run, countering gerrymandering will fall back to state legislatures, courts and voters themselves.
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"There's no hope for reform in some of the states with the worst gerrymandering," Stephanopoulos said.
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The data categorically demonstrates that minority voting power can be protected when partisan gerrymandering is forbidden.
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The Court declined to establish a sweeping new legal standard restricting partisan gerrymandering in statewide maps.
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The injury was that voters in particular districts argued their votes were diluted by unfair gerrymandering.
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Most members of Congress need not worry about the general election, in part thanks to gerrymandering.
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Racial gerrymandering, however, is different — there's ample precedent for the courts stepping in to stop it.
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All of those pale in comparison to what was the most important obstacle for Democrats: gerrymandering.
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The practice of gerrymandering has been a thorn in the side of American democracy for most of our nation's existence, but continues largely unabated due to the difficulty of defining the point at which a new congressional district can considered to be the result of partisan gerrymandering.
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"On racial gerrymandering and the Constitution, the Court's opinion today is more forceful and clear than it has ever been that unconstitutional racial gerrymandering can occur even when a State draws districts that look regular and follow traditional districting principles," he wrote in a blog post.
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Reader feedback Theda Skocpol, the Harvard professor who studies political movements, wrote me with some thoughts about yesterday's newsletter on gerrymandering, and I think it's worth quoting her note in full: I agree with your gerrymandering comments here, but I think the real issues go deeper.
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Recently, though, suits have been filed challenging partisan gerrymandering too — and have resulted in some surprising successes.
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There's a long history of gerrymandering in this country, one that stretches back to the nation's founding.
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You might think that the one person, one vote principle might offer a solution to partisan gerrymandering.
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The mere threat of future lawsuits would do a great deal to tamp down on partisan gerrymandering.
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National party operatives mobilized their resources to influence state elections so they could influence gerrymandering after 2010.
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Grofman has developed a five-pronged gerrymandering test that distills the key elements of the Wisconsin case.
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Gerrymandering is, of course, the dark art of drawing a legislative map that favors your political party.
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Watch the video above to learn more about gerrymandering and why the Supreme Court rulings are consequential.
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Make no mistake: The Supreme Court's ruling on partisan gerrymandering is a massive moment in electoral politics.
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But gerrymandering is something that both parties have taken part in over the history of this country.
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A ruling against partisan gerrymandering would be a first, and could reshape electoral politics in the states.
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It is the second recent ruling to strike down partisan gerrymandering, after a similar case in Michigan.
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Instead, the justices dwelt on the question of "justiciability"—whether gerrymandering is even something courts can tackle.
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Even Justice Samuel Alito, a sure vote to uphold the skewed maps, said that gerrymandering is "distasteful".
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The idea behind gerrymandering is pretty simple: you pack your opponents' supporters together into very few districts.
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The momentum in lower courts has pushed the issue of partisan gerrymandering back to the Supreme Court.
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Sophisticated, computer-driven gerrymandering has all but eliminated actual competition in elections to the House of Representatives.
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A lawsuit targeting Maryland's use of gerrymandering can go forward, a three-judge federal panel ruled Wednesday.
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In June, the justices agreed to hear a case on the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin.
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Eliminating voter suppression and gerrymandering will create more diverse constituencies that elect moderate, sensitive and accountable leaders.
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But it has never been successful in developing a test concerning a much thornier issue: partisan gerrymandering.
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It's not fair to have to play on a field slanted by gerrymandering, but politics ain't beanbag.
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With the Supreme Court announcing last June that it would hear Wisconsin-based gerrymandering case Gill v.
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The justices are still grappling with two partisan gerrymandering cases challenging voter maps in Wisconsin and Maryland.
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I've been proven wrong by conventional wisdom, but it's still going to be tough because of gerrymandering.
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A spokesman for the Republican did not respond to requests for comment on the trial over gerrymandering.
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They control gerrymandering and, in the case of Wisconsin, openly suppress the vote with voter ID laws.
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Increasing the size of the House can, in fact, help to fix the issue of partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court on Monday punted the issue of partisan gerrymandering for a second time this month.
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Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court sided with Texas lawmakers in a high-profile gerrymandering decision.
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If the justices rule otherwise, they warn, the court will be inundated with claims of partisan gerrymandering.
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But sometimes maps produce unrepresentative results not because of smoky backroom deals or elaborate data-driven gerrymandering.
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At the time, nobody was certain how Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Kennedy's replacement, would rule on partisan gerrymandering.
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The decision in Rucho very well may be discouraging for those seeking to curb hyper-partisan gerrymandering.
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"Partisan gerrymandering no doubt burdens individual votes, but it also causes other harms," Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses supporters against partisan gerrymandering after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Gill v.
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With the congressional delegation, unthinkable opportunities abound, with or without court decisions on gerrymandering expediting the matter.
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In the North Carolina case, Clement warned the court against ruling that partisan gerrymandering can be unconstitutional.
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" Why it matters: "[T]he Supreme Court has never found a plan unconstitutional because of partisan gerrymandering.
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He explained how with gerrymandering, each party is "locked in" to a district and is essentially unbeatable.
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The state Supreme Court redrew Pennsylvania's congressional map after a long-fought gerrymandering case earlier this year.
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Michigan is one of the most gerrymandered states in the country, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
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It's part of an effort to eliminate partisan gerrymandering, what many call a form of voter suppression.
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Independent districting commissions, for example, might get rid of gerrymandering but find it hard to improve competition.
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The latest: The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a partisan gerrymandering case on March 28.
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To stop gerrymandering, Warren will require states to use independent redistricting commissions to draw federal congressional districts.
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Jubilirer that the First Amendment theory might support gerrymandering challenges like the one at issue in Gill.
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But extreme gerrymandering reduces legislators' incentive and ability to make such difficult political decisions — particularly bipartisan ones.
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At the center of the case is the "efficiency gap," a relatively new measure of partisan gerrymandering.
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Instead, two other partisan gerrymandering cases reached the Supreme Court this term, from North Carolina and Maryland.
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Separately, the United States Supreme Court is considering two challenges to partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Maryland.
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He heard his first case about gerrymandering in 1972, in his second year as a circuit judge.
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Last but not least, Ohio voters have been asked to weigh in on a gerrymandering reform referendum.
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Some 22000-year-old can get a lot of people excited about gerrymandering and amend the constitution.
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Some 27-year-old can get a lot of people excited about gerrymandering and amend the constitution.
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The goal of gerrymandering is to draw political boundaries in ways that maximize a governing party's advantage.
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Also, voters overwhelmingly reject gerrymandering, especially people who feel ignored — a trait common to many Trump voters.
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Our nominating processes and the way the parties are structured and gerrymandering tends to spread things apart.
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Justice Kagan added that courts have an important role to play given the harm caused by gerrymandering.
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Electoral gerrymandering, curtailing press freedoms and fearmongering create a toxic mix to consolidate rule over the people.
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The panel's standards for determining impermissible gerrymandering are hard to meet except in the most egregious cases.
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But the court's rejection of statewide challenges in the Wisconsin case will make gerrymandering litigation more complex.
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How else could the gerrymandering, Citizens United, voter ID laws and other forms of disenfranchisement be justified?
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The justices have yet to resolve a separate political gerrymandering case, from Wisconsin, heard on October 3.
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Nonpartisan redistricting in all 50 states would break partisan gerrymandering and force incumbents to compete for votes.
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Democrats have blamed GOP gerrymandering in 2010 for their inability to make significant gains in the House.
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We check in with Adam Liptak, who covers the court, about whether partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution.
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He currently chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a liberal group focused on the issue of gerrymandering.
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"I don't know," he answered, saying he is fully focused on his anti-gerrymandering project right now.
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Gerrymandering refers to manipulating the boundaries of a voting district in order to favor a particular party.
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If we are concerned about gerrymandering, we need to figure out why we are concerned about it.
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RELATED: Supreme Court conservatives question challenges of partisan gerrymandering Roberts also has signaled he may move cautiously.
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From gerrymandering to purging voter rolls, it's no accident whose voices get counted, and whose do not.
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Partisan gerrymandering creates an unrepresentative democracy and encourages self-interested politics where politicians put party before country.
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He also argued for ranked-choice voting, an end to partisan gerrymandering, term limits and other measures.
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He also argued for ranked-choice voting, an end to partisan gerrymandering, term limits and other measures.
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Speaking of which: Owing to gerrymandering, Republicans have an easier path to a majority in the House.
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Opponents of partisan gerrymandering said they welcomed the opportunity to try to persuade the justices to act.
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But the remedy they proposed was about restricting partisan gerrymandering in the statewide map as a whole.
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Yesterday was a bad day for gerrymandering, which means it was a good day for American democracy.
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Their platform ranges from access to polling places and gerrymandering to concerns about hacking on Election Day.
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They're pushing to bolster the Election Assistance Commission's resources and implement automatic voter registration and gerrymandering reform.
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Gerrymandering is as old as the American republic, and has been done for a variety of reasons.
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Perez, No. 17-626, join two voting rights cases already on the court's docket concerning partisan gerrymandering.
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Single-member districts are uniquely prone to gerrymandering because they provide so many possibilities for drawing boundaries.
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In 2016, House Democrats didn't just face the obstacle of gerrymandering when going up against the GOP.
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The court's surprise announcement in December that it would hear the second partisan gerrymandering case, Benisek v.
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After taking up two cases this term raising questions about whether courts can resolve partisan gerrymandering claims, and, if so, how, the court punted on both equal protection and First Amendment questions raised — and Kennedy, who has long expressed interest in partisan gerrymandering issues, wrote nothing in either case.
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"Whatever your No. 1 issue, it's not going to be resolved until we fix this," said Carol Kuniholm, a Pennsylvanian who is a co-founder and chairwoman of Fair Districts PA. Congressional gerrymandering is most extreme in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
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It could also mark the conclusion of the state's ongoing legal battle over partisan gerrymandering, the News & Observer notes, "since at least one top Republican lawmaker said he doesn't plan to appeal..." In June, the U.S. Supreme Court considered gerrymandering in another case involving North Carolina's legislative map.
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This is particularly important in states where Republicans held the trifecta last time, and wound up aggressively gerrymandering.
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Whitford case, posing the prospect of a national ruling that could limit partisan gerrymandering for the first time.
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A US district court recently ruled that partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina was done explicitly along racial lines.
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Even so, the current moment is perhaps the most auspicious one in decades for reining in partisan gerrymandering.
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The organization is focused on overhauling those maps and fighting the "gerrymandering" that in some cases favors Republicans.
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The court announced decisions on two big cases: partisan gerrymandering and a citizenship question on the US census.
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"We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts," Roberts added.
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Another case turns on whether courts can step in and articulate a standard to police extreme partisan gerrymandering.
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He has spoken out against gerrymandering and voter suppression, and in 2017 established the nonprofit Let America Vote.
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Texas Democrats sometimes make themselves feel better about that by pointing to voter suppression or gerrymandering by Republicans.
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Opponents have said partisan gerrymandering has begun to warp American democracy by muffling large segments of the electorate.
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The US Supreme Court ruled this June that the federal courts must stay out of disputes over gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering and party primaries reward extremists, and ensure that, once elected, they seldom need fear for their jobs.
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At a certain point, gerrymandering the precincts themselves becomes inconvenient for voters, but it works in a pinch.
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In 2017, Samuel Alito, a conservative justice unwilling to crack down on partisan draughtsmen, nevertheless called gerrymandering "distasteful".
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court's newest member, voiced frustration with Democratic gerrymandering in his home state of Maryland.
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This "strikingly counter-majoritarian result" was not just a product of pro-Republican partisan gerrymandering, argues Mr Rodden.
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The crux of Chief Justice Roberts' approach to gerrymandering seems to be this: these cases don't belong here.
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Why it matters: Critics say extreme partisan gerrymandering undermines the basic premise that each person's vote counts equally.
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Mr Schwarzenegger has recorded a short video explaining what he concedes is the "very dry" subject of gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering in the state has all but guaranteed Republican control, even as the statewide vote tilts back Democratic.
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By allowing politicians to, in effect, choose their voters, gerrymandering trumps other efforts to reform the voting system.
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Langer tells CNN that gerrymandering has been an issue in the past, but the challenge goes beyond that.
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Eliminating the filibuster, ending gerrymandering, and giving DC the vote would make government more responsive, effective, and accountable.
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Gerrymandering dates back to the 19th century, but the Supreme Court has never ruled a partisan gerrymander unconstitutional.
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The authority to decide on gerrymandering should be in the hands of states or congress, the ruling said.
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But the truth is that gerrymandering pits political power against the people, regardless of which party holds power.
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While little effort has been successfully made to fight gerrymandering in Ohio, change could be on the way.
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Fortunately, the Supreme Court is weighing three cases on political gerrymandering this term that may provide a solution.
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What resulted was a fractured decision that left no clear consensus on how to wrestle with partisan gerrymandering.
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The challengers proposed such a standard with the "efficiency gap," a mathematical tool that purportedly measures partisan gerrymandering.
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Voting rights and gerrymandering Tuesday, justices will tackle a case that could reshape electoral maps across the country.
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"Americans do not like gerrymandering," McCain and Whitehouse wrote in the brief, first highlighted by The Huffington Post.
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"Because of gerrymandering and unlimited spending" the GOP is "in fact choosing party over their country," he said.
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That process starts by presenting a unified effort across the political spectrum for forward-looking solutions to Gerrymandering.
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And because those politicians maintain themselves in office through partisan gerrymandering, the chances for legislative reform are slight.
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That ruthless partisan gerrymandering also turned Georgia's legislative elections into some of the most uncompetitive in the nation.
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In Rucho, Roberts wrote that voters could turn to other mechanisms to remedy structural problems like partisan gerrymandering.
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One measure will establish an independent redistricting commission after a decade of Republican-led gerrymandering in the state.
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"Partisanship and polarization and gerrymandering and corporate money have ruined our politics, and it's divided us," Kelly said.
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In Colorado, Governor Hickenlooper is supporting a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to prohibit partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering after punting the issue last term.
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It was the perfect storm, showing both the extreme nature of gerrymandering and how both parties do it.
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Second, the decisions do nothing to the power of state courts to stop partisan gerrymandering under state constitutions.
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They don't talk about how gerrymandering and the advantages of incumbency make it hard to defeat sitting lawmakers.
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Single-party domination has expanded since 2012 because of increased partisan gerrymandering, which eliminated dozens of competitive districts.
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Two high-profile cases that seek to rein in partisan gerrymandering are slated for decisions by late June.
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Elbridge Gerry gave gerrymandering its name, Hofeller is the architect who brought the process into the modern era.
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Some Democrats hope the influence of state legislatures on redistricting could be diluted by anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives.
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Jagged district lines are not prima facie proof of gerrymandering—fair districts in California occasionally have jagged borders.
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It kicked the can on potentially landmark cases about partisan gerrymandering, allowing GOP-drawn congressional districts to stand.
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Some, like deciding whether partisan gerrymandering is constitutional, could directly and immediately affect the actual practice of politics.
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It lost the popular vote at the most recent election, remaining in power thanks only to assiduous gerrymandering.
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Next month, the pressure building in opposition to gerrymandering will be on display at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Institute a voting system that allows all citizens to vote in elections without any gerrymandering or other tricks.
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"We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts," he wrote.
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On Saturday, Parliament signed off on a redrawing of voting districts, prompting cries of gerrymandering from opposition parties.
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A 4-4 tie would affirm the lower court's ruling that the map did not constitute racial gerrymandering.
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Even the strongest blue wave may crash up against a powerful structural force in American politics: extreme gerrymandering.
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The high court's decision does not preclude state lawmakers, or Congress, from taking action to reduce partisan gerrymandering.
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As others have said, gerrymandering means that instead of voters choosing their leaders, the leaders choose their voters.
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The ruling undermines itself by affirming that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional and can be rectified by the courts.
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In terms of gerrymandering, there are certainly states where Republicans could go even further than they do today.
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That was the combined message of yesterday's two big Supreme Court rulings, on gerrymandering and the 2020 census.
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Republicans are upset that earlier this year, the state's voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment to restrict gerrymandering.
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The measure would require disclosure of shadowy political donors, end gerrymandering of congressional districts and expand voting rights.
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This year, many Democratic women ran in districts where gerrymandering or incumbency made it almost impossible to win.
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The Republicans who assumed control of Columbus pulled off an aggressive gerrymandering of federal and state legislative districts.
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Partisan gerrymandering, they say, is a political issue best addressed by the politicians in Congress and the states.
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In June, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its first partisan gerrymandering case in more than a decade.
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For more than three decades, the Supreme Court has recognized that severe partisan gerrymandering can violate the Constitution.
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The court, which is considering two other major tests of partisan gerrymandering, has granted stays in similar settings.
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Gerrymandering and an avalanche of political money, for both electoral campaigns and lobbying, are additional (and related) flaws.
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Her other ideas include longer terms for elected officials coupled with term limits, less gerrymandering and mandatory voting.
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"The plaintiffs' partisan gerrymandering claims turn on allegations that their votes have been diluted," the chief justice wrote.
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The state court found that this partisan gerrymandering violated North Carolina's constitution's guarantee of free and fair elections.
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The 27st is a monstrosity of gerrymandering that disenfranchises voters and weakens representative democracy in upstate New York.
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Thanks to gerrymandering and intense polarization in the electorate, fewer districts are truly competitive than in the past.
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The stay also raises doubts about whether a majority believes the court should ever resolve partisan gerrymandering claims.
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Divide-and-conquer tactics like union-busting and gerrymandering destroyed the possibility of class unity among struggling people.
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"Partisan gerrymandering of this kind is worse now than at any time in recent memory," Mr. Smith said.
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In Rucho, all five of the Court's Republicans voted that federal courts are powerless to stop partisan gerrymandering.
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The opposition has accused it of widespread gerrymandering and increasing hand-outs among its ethnic Malay rural powerbase.
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"Partisan gerrymandering weakens citizen power, promotes gridlock and stifles meaningful reform," Wolf said of the new Republican maps.
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Partisan gerrymandering is the process by which one party draws legislative districts to weaken the other party's voters.
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But in several of those 33 states, state legislative control is, at least arguably, due to partisan gerrymandering.
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One cause of school segregation within American metropolitan areas is the intentional gerrymandering caused by school-district lines.
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In August, the trial court found that the state's legislative map had been tainted by unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.
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Kennedy previously kept his conservative colleagues from closing the door to litigation in federal court challenging partisan gerrymandering.
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Of course, this would require more non-partisan state primaries and stops on partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts.
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But while justices have said partisan gerrymandering is wrong, they have never decided whether they can outlaw it.
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In the House, the Republicans are more vulnerable and could lose their majority -- despite their substantial gerrymandering advantage.
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Lamone, settles that problem, giving the justices an opportunity to rebuke both parties for partisan gerrymandering at once.
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In December the court also agreed to hear a partisan gerrymandering case out of Maryland, Benisek v. Lamone.
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Gerrymandering is the practice by which politicians manipulate congressional and state legislative districts for their own partisan advantage.
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In the two most recent high-profile cases on partisan gerrymandering taken up by the court, Vieth v.
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Which brings us to the news on Friday that the Supreme Court agreed to hear two gerrymandering cases.
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Mr. Brunell, a scholar of redistricting, has been an expert witness for Republican defendants in several gerrymandering cases.
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Now, the US Supreme Court has never yet agreed to step in and put limits on partisan gerrymandering.
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In New Jersey last year, the Democrats who control the Legislature considered essentially writing gerrymandering into their Constitution.
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Dissenting in the gerrymandering case, the court's liberals accused the chief justice of refusing to acknowledge political realities.
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The NDRC, which now has several full-time paid staffers, has four main operations devoted to combating gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on October 3 for a case that could create limits on gerrymandering.
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"If this Court does not take the opportunity, once and for all, to condemn political gerrymandering as the First Amendment violation that it is, it will be giving a green light to lawmakers across the country to engage in gerrymandering in 2020 like never before," he said in court briefs.
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Beyond the technical disputes about which map in which year and what's going in which district, though, the bigger picture is that the court is divided on what evidence they think is sufficient to prove racial gerrymandering — and how aggressively they should step in to try and block racial gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court this year could overturn, as illegal racial gerrymandering, the current boundaries for the House of Delegates.
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Second, the Supreme Court will not necessarily affirm the lower court's decision that extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the constitution.
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The Supreme Court last week declined to use high-profile cases from Wisconsin and Maryland to restrict partisan gerrymandering.
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Holder, now the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, is leading the organization to resist Republican-led gerrymandering.
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Partisan gerrymandering is being challenged in the US Supreme Court, with a ruling to be issued later this year.
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That means that most districts are drawn by the people who directly benefit from gerrymandering: self-interested partisan officials.
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It isn't the only reason that election results only occasionally match vote totals, and gerrymandering doesn't benefit Republicans exclusively.
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The composition of the high court, which has a 5- conservative majority, has changed since its last gerrymandering decisions.
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It's a simple idea, but one that is being used in a variety of complex ways to study gerrymandering.
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Republicans have bested them in all their own favorite games, gerrymandering, filibusters, and weaponizing congressional procedure prominent among them.
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More recently it was used to raise funds to battle gerrymandering and Trump's travel ban in the United States.
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The Republican Party has aggressively sought to rig elections in its favor, including voter purging, vote suppression and gerrymandering.
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Update: Ohio's Issue 21 gerrymandering reform proposal passed overwhelmingly during the state's primary election, through the ballot initiative process.
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That's effectively a 7-2 Supreme Court decision that partisan gerrymandering might be unconstitutional, if the right people sue.
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Gerrymandering — drawing voting districts to favor one party or the other — has a long and dishonorable history in America.
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Because district boundaries will be set in 2021, those elections are critical to the coming fight over political gerrymandering.
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Through gerrymandering Republicans worked to pack more blacks into fewer of Georgia's Congressional districts, making most other districts whiter.
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The nation's growing political curse of partisan and racial gerrymandering is at the heart of the North Carolina case.
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And in a case that could reshape American electoral politics, they will hear a constitutional challenge to partisan gerrymandering.
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Unlike other partisan gerrymandering cases pending before the US Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania case was brought in state court.
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"More effectively every day", Justice Kagan wrote, gerrymandering "enables politicians to entrench themselves in power against the people's will".
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A claim over and above the formalism of what's "allowed" in a world of gerrymandering and lifetime political appointments.
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DESPITE ITS repeated refusals to curb haywire electoral maps, the Supreme Court has no great love of partisan gerrymandering.
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And the judges threw cold water on suggestions from several justices that gerrymandering can be fixed via state efforts.
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Gerrymandering is a 200-year-old "screw-up", notes Mr Schwarzenegger, and must be fixed patiently, state-by-state.
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Early in the litigation, Virginia's attorney-general permitted the House of Delegates to respond to the constituents' gerrymandering complaints.
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A documentary about gerrymandering from Participant Media, "Slay the Dragon," premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27.
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Virginia Democrats scored a victory Monday at the Supreme Court in a case about racial gerrymandering in the state.
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Jamie Raskin, now a US House member, introduced a "Potomac Compact" with Virginia to end gerrymandering in both states.
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Thanks largely to gerrymandering, it did not achieve much: Republicans retained control of the General Assembly under his watch.
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With Justice Kennedy on his way out, and the conservative justices unworried by gerrymandering, that day may never come.
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So we're losing our democratic institutions now, and within four years it might be unrecoverable if gerrymandering isn't outlawed.
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What's next: The court will issue rulings on partisan gerrymandering in 2 other cases in the weeks to come.
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If the Court moves to curb gerrymandering, they may leave it to lower courts to settle on specific standards.
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This has been a common Republican legal argument: The patterns we see have to do with geography, not gerrymandering.
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This Court will rule on the constitutionality of gerrymandering, voter ID laws, union dues, campaign finance, Obamacare, and more.
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That is unless the court uses an upcoming opportunity to take action against the worst forms of partisan gerrymandering.
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The practice of gerrymandering has seen some defeats in recent years, but that's the exception rather than the norm.
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Canada, for instance, used to have a serious gerrymandering problem, but it shifted to independent commissions in the 1960s.
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With gerrymandering so rampant, and partisan bias felt deeply across the country, how can fair and balanced districts emerge?
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Complaints of gerrymandering stretch the word beyond any reasonable boundaries of its own, argues Iain McLean of Oxford University.
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Ohio lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bipartisan plan to curtail gerrymandering by changing how congressional district lines are drawn.
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The Princeton Gerrymandering Project puts the chance of Michigan House results emerging by nonpartisan processes alone at 1.8 percent.
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Levin reminded me that in 2017, Democrats' chances of winning the House seemed bleak, given the effect of gerrymandering.
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The goal, advocates say, is to end alleged partisan gerrymandering by state lawmakers, who are currently tasked with redistricting.
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Monday's rulings dealt a blow to critics of partisan gerrymandering, who wanted the court to start policing the practice.
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Whitford was surely a huge disappointment to many who were hoping the court might finally rule on partisan gerrymandering.
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The holding might be mourned as a missed opportunity in the fight against partisan gerrymandering in the United States.
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In a column for SCOTUSblog last year, von Spakovsky called partisan gerrymandering the "political corollary" of the Goldilocks dilemma.
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The particulars get much messier, because ideas about the gerrymandering, economic changes and more can quickly become tangled together.
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It's enhanced by low voter turnout, active voter suppression, and an electoral system that is constantly manipulated by gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court already approved partisan gerrymandering last month by ruling that federal courts can't intervene to remedy it.
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Permitting egregious gerrymandering in a democracy is like allowing the home team to throw bean balls at opposing players.
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But thanks to gerrymandering, 50 percent of the vote was enough to win them 63 percent of the seats.
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Last week, the court punted on alleged gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Maryland, allowing the maps to stand for now.
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Ohio just became the latest state where judges, getting a look inside the dark machinery of gerrymandering, said: No!
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The court also agreed to hear an appeal in a gerrymandering challenge to Virginia's legislative map, Bethune-Hill v.
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But for those who oppose partisan gerrymandering, there are three reasons to celebrate -- if only partially -- the Court's decisions.
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Those Justices argued that there are no proper legal standards to determine when partisan gerrymandering has gone too far.
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And the Supreme Court decided on gerrymandering cases involving district lines in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Maryland, Texas and North Carolina.
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Four of the nine justices said just that back in 2004, when the court addressed partisan gerrymandering head on.
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And she used a Latino-majority district mandated by the VRA and drawn by Democrats as proof of gerrymandering.
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Therefore, it's no surprise the majority party would craft lines to boost their advantage — a practice known as gerrymandering.
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He called on Americans to exercise their right to vote, and on Congress to end the practice of gerrymandering.
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The current congressional map is considered by experts one of the most extreme examples of gerrymandering in the country.
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Gerrymandering critics have said they hope a second victory in North Carolina could bolster similar efforts around the country.
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Extreme partisan gerrymandering renders political will irrelevant, or at least impotent, replacing it instead with self-perpetuating, entrenched power.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger — to speak out about the breakdown in national politics mostly caused by GOP gerrymandering of congressional districts.
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JIMMY DUNNE Houston To the Editor: In the first 211 days I want President Trump to address: 1. Gerrymandering.
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Then have them choose a district that seems particularly misshapen, a good clue that gerrymandering might be at work.
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All of this should serve as a warning to the Supreme Court, as it again takes up partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court addressed partisan gerrymandering last term, too, while Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was still on the court.
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Cory Booker and Seth Moulton, too, have called for a new Voting Rights Act that would prohibit partisan gerrymandering.
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They seemed not to believe that they would be allowed to strive for partisan balance in addressing Republican gerrymandering.
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Gerrymandering is always intentional, and the intent is to make some citizens' votes worth less than those of others.
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So on one hand, the ruling — which said federal courts can't bar partisan gerrymandering — merely preserves the status quo.
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Partisan gerrymandering is far from the only thing that drives the risk of persistent structural imbalances in American elections.
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But gerrymandering is just one piece of a much broader GOP offensive to rig the system in their favor.
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Both rulings are certain to draw the Supreme Court's interest as it mulls a resolution to the gerrymandering question.
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In her spare time, she founded and leads a massive volunteer effort that could end partisan gerrymandering in Michigan.
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At the next meeting, they voted unanimously to oppose gerrymandering and endorse an independent commission to draw district lines.
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Big news from the Supreme Court: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy seems open to limiting the practice of partisan gerrymandering.
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It's a truism across nations — the larger the size of the electoral district, the less effort expanded on gerrymandering.
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But there's a clear gap between Democrats and Republicans in all districts — and gerrymandering can't explain that basic polarization.
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Former President Obama is praising a North Carolina court's decision to redraw the state's legislative districts over partisan gerrymandering.
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The former governor last week implied that the group was not aiming to fight gerrymandering but rather help Democrats.
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The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the U.S. Constitution prohibits challenges to partisan gerrymandering in federal courts.
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The court is considering cases of gerrymandering in Wisconsin, by a Republican legislative majority, and in Maryland, by Democrats.
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Voter suppression efforts like redistricting, gerrymandering and voter purging (among many other issues) have long since made that clear.
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For now, the verdict is still out on how strong a role courts will play in constraining partisan gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution — a case that could reshape American politics.
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Consider that Roberts also wrote the Court's decision holding that federal courts may do nothing to stop partisan gerrymandering.
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The Democrats' record on gerrymandering is dire; Republican attempts to suppress non-white voter turnout are a terrible stain.
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We must also establish independent redistricting committees to end the practice of gerrymandering and restore the Voting Rights Act.
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But he neglects to point out that voter suppression and gerrymandering are sometimes the reason those politicians are elected.
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The Supreme Court denied a request Tuesday to immediately take up a partisan gerrymandering case out of North Carolina.
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The districts of Meehan and Costello are particularly glaring examples of misshapen maps created through partisan gerrymandering, Democrats say.
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Partisan gerrymandering, however, opens a door to the proposal and ratification of amendments are not in fact widely supported.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide on landmark partisan gerrymandering cases involving North Carolina and Maryland legislative maps.
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During the interview, Clinton alleges that through gerrymandering, Republicans plan to elect Republican governors, and call a constitutional convention.
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The difficulty in drawing districts that convert partisan votes into actual representation without gerrymandering in some form becomes apparent.
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"It is not the will of the people that is fairly ascertained through extreme partisan gerrymandering," the court wrote.
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But as we approach the 2020 elections, it appears that cracks are finally showing in the GOP's gerrymandering wall.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take another look at whether the Constitution bars extreme partisan gerrymandering.
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They didn't decide whether partisan gerrymandering is constitutional, or on how it could be measured or limited if so.
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All that's clear for now is that the Supreme Court hasn't stepped in to restrict partisan gerrymandering just yet.
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Critics have said gerrymandering has become increasingly effective and insidious, guided by precise voter data and powerful computer software.
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The last time the Court heard a gerrymandering case was back in 20143, when it considered Pennsylvania's electoral map.
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He was our launch user for our new communities product, which is all based around the issue of gerrymandering.
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Critics in both parties of gerrymandering have said that it warps democracy by stifling large segments of the electorate.
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Republicans and Democrats over the years have engaged in gerrymandering, manipulating electoral boundaries to entrench one party in power.
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The Supreme Court last year failed to issue decisive rulings on partisan gerrymandering in cases from Wisconsin and Maryland.
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It doesn't matter whether this is due to conscious gerrymandering or because Democratic voters are concentrated in urban areas.
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When Republicans set to map-drawing in 2016, they were clear: This time, they were doing a partisan gerrymandering.
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Traveling to North Carolina, it becomes clear how deeply gerrymandering has impacted every facet of life in the state.
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The Supreme Court won't decide if Virginia's gerrymandering was racist The Supreme Court won't decide if Virginia's gerrymandering was racist A district court will have to re-examine whether the Republican-led legislature in Virginia illegally sought to dilute black voters' influence when it drew legislative districts, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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The president spoke out against gerrymandering, drawing applause from Republicans, who have recently been subjected to the practice in Illinois.
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"Liberal elitism" isn't the only reason; recent gerrymandering of many counties saw historically blue states turn red this election. 93.
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Reformers held out hope that the Supreme Court would restrict partisan gerrymandering, but justices have so far avoided the issue.
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In recent years, organizations have used hackathons to find code-enabled solutions for everything from the opioid crisis to gerrymandering.
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The Supreme Court agrees, at least in theory: In 1986 it ruled that partisan gerrymandering, if extreme enough, is unconstitutional.
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" "We respectfully disagree with the Chief Justice that this decision won't be read as an endorsement of excessive partisan gerrymandering.
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Go deeper: These midterm victories will expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering Midterm madness: The election results we still don't know
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" He also told a reporter that night: "Fuck gerrymandering," adding, "Honestly, young people are just going to have to run.
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And some Democrats have questioned whether this compromise meant sacrificing the opportunity for greater and more meaningful anti-gerrymandering measures.
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In the case of the black community, you can add on decades of gerrymandering, subprime mortgage lending, and racial bias.
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However, in most cases, the gerrymandering successfully prevents reformist candidates from winning elections, ensuring that the system remains in place.
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The Justice Department was before the US Supreme Court last week on a gerrymandering case involving redistricting efforts in Texas.
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Wisconsin officials point to the difficulty of having courts craft a workable standard for when partisan gerrymandering violates constitutional protections.
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Partisan gerrymandering may be "unsavoury", as Justice Samuel Alito puts it, but has not been held to offend the constitution.
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Republicans did very well in the 2010 midterms, so the preponderance of gerrymandering in current congressional maps reflects GOP priorities.
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Despite gerrymandering, censorship and racist appeals to the Malay majority, voters dumped the ruling party of the past 61 years.
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North Carolina vowed to appeal, which could see the case added to two other gerrymandering suits at the Supreme Court.
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But on June 20153th, a bare majority of the Supreme Court declared a crucial issue—partisan gerrymandering—outside its portfolio.
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Its boundaries, even after they were reset by judges to eliminate racial gerrymandering in an adjacent district, still favour Republicans.
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Gerrymandering, nonproportional representation in Congress, and the Electoral College lead to a representative government that isn't very representative at all.
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Since 2001, the Republican Party has used hyper-partisan gerrymandering to protect its majorities, especially in the House of Delegates.
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The other side: Critics say Wisconsin and North Carolina are examples of just how aggressive and sophisticated gerrymandering has gotten.
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Then there's the gerrymandering power grab by Republicans described in gory detail in the book "RatF**ked"by David Daley.
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Sewell and Weiser both say race, in addition to partisanship, is at play with voter ID laws and with gerrymandering.
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Voting rights advocates equate felony disenfranchisement with other forms of voter suppression like voter ID laws, gerrymandering and voter purges.
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According to the Associated Press, Texas gives the US House of Representatives a bigger "gerrymandering bump" than any other state.
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In an American South where race and party increasingly overlap, racial gerrymandering is, at least in part, a partisan project.
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And he called for an end to the practice of gerrymandering -- the redefining of congressional districts to favor one party.
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In racial gerrymandering, lines are drawn to lower the influence of minority voters, sometimes by scattering them across different districts.
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Fifteen years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia similarly argued that all partisan—but not racial—gerrymandering claims should be declared nonjusticiable.
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Texas is 50th in voter turnout for that reason, as well as intense gerrymandering, and other ways of voter suppression.
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The plans amount to "gerrymandering", according to Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, whose Islington North seat is among those facing abolition.
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At issue is partisan gerrymandering -- or the length to which legislators go when they manipulate district lines for partisan advantage.
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Ranked choice also works at a smaller local level, ensuring that gerrymandering can no longer play a role in elections.
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Gerrymandering can be achieved by concentrating a minority party's votes into one district and/or scattering them across multiple districts.
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In her concurrence, Justice Elena Kagan sought to address this problem by offering a new legal theory of political gerrymandering.
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"The Democrats win the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years despite powerful Republican gerrymandering," Moscovici wrote.
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She pointed to the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case that's making its way back before the court as an example.
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Otherwise, how could there be equal protection under the law if extreme gerrymandering prevents equal representation in the voting booth?
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Ideally, of course, it would be preferable to eliminate gerrymandering entirely by having an independent commission draw the district lines.
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To almost no one's surprise, on Monday the Supreme Court avoided ruling on the constitutionality of gerrymandering by state legislatures.
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In a year of potential blockbuster cases involving political gerrymandering, technological surveillance, and the limits of religious expression, Murphy v.
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The answer should be easy: the Constitution exists to prevent the very kind of political entrenchment that partisan gerrymandering represents.
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Six states currently ban prison gerrymandering, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit organization that studies criminal-justice issues.
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One of the most far-reaching issues reaching this court this year and next is the issue of partisan gerrymandering.
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They might also let the decisions of federal district courts stand, as they did in Pennsylvania's gerrymandering case in 28500.
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These new tactics include hampering media access, gerrymandering, changing election and voter eligibility rules and placing allies on electoral commissions.
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And while she recently went viral with a rant on gerrymandering, a lot of the information she spread was wrong.
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Donald Trump Jr. faces new Russia scrutiny; Mosul is liberated from ISIS; a big gerrymandering case kicks off in Texas.
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While gerrymandering may explain some of the noncompetitiveness of House races, it can't explain the Senate or the Electoral College.
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Then discuss: Do students think the efficiency gap provides a "workable standard" for the Supreme Court to identify unconstitutional gerrymandering?
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A large-enough showing by voters opposed to Trump would overcome the forces of gerrymandering and overwhelm the Koch brothers.
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Voter ID laws, gerrymandering and the introduction of the citizenship question into the census strike at the foundations of democracy.
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"It seems like a pretty clear violation of the Constitution in some form to have deliberate, extreme gerrymandering," Breyer said.
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"We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts," the chief justice wrote.
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But Republicans have also stressed that it is not gerrymandering alone that has kept them in power in the states.
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The House has long looked like impossible to flip because gerrymandering has given Republicans a fortress of extraordinarily safe seats.
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The Republican Senate advantage is similar to the Republican edge in the U.S. House, even though there's no gerrymandering involved.
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Related: Mother Jones's Kevin Drum points out one upside of Democratic gerrymandering: It increases the chances of a national solution.
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In statehouse races, Democrats nearly matched Republicans in total votes statewide, but they saw limited gains because of Republican gerrymandering.
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In New Jersey, state Democrats recently pushed for an inequitable new gerrymandering plan — until progressive activists beat back the plan.
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Whitford, which could reconfigure American elections by deciding whether gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing districts for political gain, is unconstitutional.
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But the problem for Democrats is that gerrymandering per se to gain a partisan advantage is not against state law.
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Massive electoral defeat – massive enough to overwhelm gerrymandering and other structural advantages of the right – is the only way out.
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The case also involves a quantitative measure of gerrymandering — the efficiency gap — that has created a bit of a buzz.
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The efficiency gap is, in fact, a simple and intuitive measure of gerrymandering, and I'll explain why in a minute.
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The move followed two decisions last week that sidestepped the main issues in partisan gerrymandering cases from Wisconsin and Maryland.
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Gerrymandering and voter-suppression laws have led to a country where the will of the majority is not being expressed.
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Chief Justice Roberts's opinion in the Wisconsin case lacked soaring language or all but the most glancing criticism of gerrymandering.
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A Michigan ballot initiative points the way to reforming gerrymandering, one of the most anti-democratic practices in American politics.
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But legal experts and advocates say the campaign to end gerrymandering has other options it can pursue besides ballot initiatives.
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In the Senate that is by design, but in the House it is promoted by routine gerrymandering and voter-suppression.
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On the same subject, Sean Trende, an elections analyst for RealClearPolitics, has some good thoughts about the philosophy of gerrymandering.
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Forces more influential than the political leanings of a white factory worker decide election outcomes: gerrymandering, super PACs, corrupt officials.
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The jumping-off point is a 19903 Supreme Court ruling that prohibited what has come to be called racial gerrymandering.
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In the Wisconsin case, the Supreme Court said on Monday that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution.
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The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether partisan gerrymandering can violate the Constitution — a case that could reshape American politics.
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Last year, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a Republican gerrymandering initiative, conservative legislators attempted to impeach the justices.
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Go deeper: Supreme Court: Partisan gerrymandering "beyond the reach" of federal courts Federal judges rule Michigan's voting maps illegally gerrymandered
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The more interesting debate now isn't so much whether partisan gerrymandering would represent the Republican margin of victory next year.
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At the beginning of the cycle, Republicans seemed to possess big structural edges: the advantages of incumbency, gerrymandering and geography.
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And it could get worse: Gerrymandering challenges to other congressional and state legislative districts also are headed for the justices.
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The state Supreme Court struck down the current lines in January, arguing that they're an unconstitutional creation of partisan gerrymandering.
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The National Redistricting Reform Act will end partisan gerrymandering by requiring states to use independent commissions to draw district lines.
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Legal controversy over gerrymandering The lower court panel that ruled Monday had previously declared the map an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
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Some people argue that this sorting is simply the result of gerrymandering — and that is certainly part of the problem.
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For all the commenters: this article is about gerrymandering, I don't know why you are talking about the electoral college.
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The Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that the U.S. Constitution prohibits challenges to partisan gerrymandering in federal courts.
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Gerrymandering is not new, but with the precision of today's mapping technology, the effects are more acute than ever before.
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Even worse, Hasen writes in The Atlantic, the court could eventually hear a case challenging ballot initiatives that restrict gerrymandering.
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The senator said Sunday she wants to emphasize her record on equal opportunity, on voting rights bills and against gerrymandering.
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Justice Kennedy's replacement by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh makes a ruling limiting partisan gerrymandering less likely, election law experts said.
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That's because whether you are gerrymandering to favor Republicans or Democrats, minority voters can be a useful focus of attention.
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One way or another, the Supreme Court is very likely to issue a landmark decision on political gerrymandering by June.
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When Justice Kavanaugh replaced Justice Kennedy, many election lawyers said the prospects of a decision limiting partisan gerrymandering dropped sharply.
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In the North Carolina case, Mr. Clement warned the court about the perils it faced in taking on partisan gerrymandering.
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For decades, the courts have held that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment forbids gerrymandering on racial grounds.
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Party enthusiasm was high in the Trump era, but gerrymandering gave Republicans a big structural advantage going into the midterms.
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Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and uncontrolled campaign spending will continue to result in elections skewed in an unrepresentative and undemocratic direction.
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It's the first time in over a decade that the Supreme Court has considered the practice, known as partisan gerrymandering.
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But due to intense gerrymandering and Democrats' concentration in urban areas, the party did not retake any of these legislatures.
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THE Supreme Court will hear a case in the autumn that puts a new spin on an old scourge: partisan gerrymandering.
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Republicans won statehouses that Democrats had held for decades; in several competitive states they cemented their hold on power through gerrymandering.
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Go deeper: These midterm victories will expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering Report finds protections for minority voters have plunged since 2013
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But Democrats will need to do at least that well to have any hope of retaking the house thanks to gerrymandering.
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Gerry and salamander were mashed together in the public's mind, and just like that, the words "gerrymander" and "gerrymandering" were born.
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Richards also found that stable communities — ones where the demographics have stayed steady — also have high levels of gerrymandering toward segregation.
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A French EU commissioner mocked Trump's tweet about the midterms being a "tremendous success" by noting that Democrats overcame Republican gerrymandering.
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In another, Democrats win 54 percent of the total House vote but, due to gerrymandering and geography, a minority of seats.
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Court rulings have also reduced the effects of gerrymandering, leaving the G.O.P. more vulnerable to the effects of a wave election.
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If one political party tries to redraw the map, citizens can quickly check themselves whether the changes would equate to gerrymandering.
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Democrats have, over the decades, used gerrymandering, just like Republicans, to try to skew congressional and legislative maps in their favor.
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In a section discussing enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the new version removes previous references to redistricting and racial gerrymandering.
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They urged the justices to either greenlight the lower court's method of deciding cases of partisan gerrymandering, or create their own.
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Farr had also defended the state's legislative and congressional maps, some of which the Supreme Court ruled as illegal racial gerrymandering.
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Go deeper: These midterm victories will expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering What the midterm election results mean for 2020's redistricting
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But this has been a banner year for anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives which bypass governors and legislatures and their party allegiances.
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The Supreme Court is currently hearing two cases challenging partisan gerrymandering, with the potential to shape the future of this practice.
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"The politicians who benefit from partisan gerrymandering", like judges in their own cases, have no incentive to deal fairly with rivals.
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This week, Shepard Fairey's Inauguration graphics, defeating gerrymandering, artists at Standing Rock, swarm technology in the US military, ACT UP vs.
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Thanks to Americans' tendency to separate into like-minded communities and to deliberate gerrymandering, most individual House races are one-sided.
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PH's triumph suggests that the old model of winning elections—giveaways and gerrymandering—no longer appeals to Malaysia's increasingly sophisticated electorate.
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Far Cry 5 tossed references to Trump, fake news, and gerrymandering into what is essentially an updated take on Red Dawn.
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A ruling favourable to the anti-gerrymandering side in either Gill or Benisek could transform the way America elects its legislators.
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" House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, said in a statement, "Partisan gerrymandering is fundamentally corrosive to democracy.
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But due to geography and gerrymandering, their majority in the chamber will fall far short of their majority at the polls.
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"Partisanship and polarization and gerrymandering and corporate money have ruined our politics and it's divided us," he says in the video.
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Gerrymandering is back in the news and being blamed for all sorts of ills, from distorting representation to creating government dysfunction.
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Sadly, the midterms were also marred by charges of voter suppression, which continues to be a concern, along with partisan gerrymandering.
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Various solutions to America's gerrymandering problem have been proposed over the years, but most of these have failed to gain traction.
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The June high court ruling did not foreclose partisan gerrymandering being challenged in lawsuits based on violations of a state constitution.
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