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Partisan Gerrymandering
gerrymandering
Jan. 14, 2022
Another State Says to Hell With Gerrymandering After the Supreme Court punted on the issue, state constitutions like Ohio’s may hold the key to reform.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting There’s now an outside chance that the House map might end up slightly biased in the Democrats ’ favor.
By Eric Levitz
voting rights
Mar. 25, 2021
Manchin Values Bipartisanship Over Voting Rights The West Virginian doesn’t seem interested in voting rights if it means filibuster reform — unless he’s setting up a test Republicans will fail.
By Ed Kilgore
partisan gerrymandering
Feb. 12, 2021
Census Delays Could Create Havoc and Skullduggery in Redistricting Lack of timely Census data could short-circuit court challenges to partisan gerrymandering, which Republicans in particular are expected to pursue.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 19, 2020
Supreme Court Stops GOP Effort to Reject Tons of Ballots in Pennsylvania The 4-4 decision was a setback for Republicans, but it might have gone differently if Amy Coney Barrett were already confirmed.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 census
Dec. 16, 2019
It Sure Looks Like Republicans Don’t Want an Accurate Census Count There’s a stark partisan divide between state governments that encourage their residents to participate in the 2020 Census, and those that don’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2020 elections
Nov. 15, 2019
New North Carolina Map Endangers At Least Two House Republicans If state courts reject this latest party-line map, Republican could lose more U.S. House seats, and the trend may spread to other states.
By Ed Kilgore
gerrymandering
Oct. 29, 2019
State Court Tosses GOP’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map in North Carolina Republican boasts about partisan motives for maps challenged, as an illegal racial gerrymander backfired.
By Ed Kilgore
gerrymandering
Sept. 3, 2019
Another Court Declares Partisan Gerrymandering Unconstitutional Under State Laws North Carolina joins Pennsylvania as jurisdictions where state constitutional equal protection provisions have led to the demise of Republican maps.
By Ed Kilgore
America’s Political System Is Rigged Against Liberals (and Always Has Been) The left’s underrepresentation in U.S. politics isn’t new, and ending gerrymandering won’t fix it. But the liberalization of suburbia might.
By Eric Levitz
u.s. supreme court
June 27, 2019
Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering The brief window for federal court scrutiny of an intensely anti-democratic practices has come and gone.
By Ed Kilgore
Safe Districts Exist to Produce Insurgents Like AOC — and Leaders Like Pelosi So far AOC has done nothing to threaten her party other than asking Democrats to consider a more aggressive and expansive agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
Michigan Case Illustrates the Overlap Between Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering Michigan Republicans bragged about concentrating “Dem garbage” and minimizing impact of black voters. Is this too much or not enough for the courts?
By Ed Kilgore
SCOTUS Punts Again on the Question of Partisan Gerrymandering It’s now unlikely the Supremes will clarify any limitations on using redistricting for blatantly partisan purposes until the eve of 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
The Midterms Could Have a Big Impact on Redistricting A majority of governors and a sizable minority of legislators who will be drawing congressional lines for the next decade will be elected this year.
By Ed Kilgore
The Clock Is Ticking on SCOTUS’s Decision about Partisan Gerrymandering The second major partisan gerrymandering case before SCOTUS isn’t clearing up the Court’s future direction.
By Ed Kilgore
Tammy Baldwin’s Tough Reelection Fight in Hyperpolarized Wisconsin An awful lot’s going on politically in Wisconsin this year, and Senator Tammy Baldwin’s right in the middle of it.
By Ed Kilgore
The Supreme Court Won’t Intervene on Behalf of GOP in P.A. Gerrymandering Case The Court deferred to a state court on the state constitution, so the GOP is going to have to redraw those maps after all.
By Ed Kilgore
Pennsylvania Court Kills Gerrymandered Pro-GOP Congressional Map In really bad timing for Republicans, a state court applying state law overturns a congressional map and requires new districts this year.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Justice Kennedy Sink Partisan Gerrymandering — or Save It? In a potential landmark case from Wisconsin, SCOTUS tries to decide if intent to rob minority-party voters of influence can be measured and corrected.
By Ed Kilgore