A moment of reckoning for gerrymandering - CNN
Sep 9, 2023 · The selective drawing of legislative district maps during periods of redistricting after the US census every 10 years – colloquially known as gerrymandering – is a practice that has been the...
The Supreme Court rules in favor of South Carolina Republicans in ...
May 23, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congressional district as a racial gerrymander.
How Gerrymandering Tilts the 2024 Race for the House
Sep 24, 2024 · In 2022, Congress nearly passed the Freedom to Vote Act, a landmark package of democracy reforms that included a prohibition on partisan gerrymandering in the drawing of congressional districts. The transformative bill passed the …
North Carolina's Supreme Court reverses itself on gerrymandering - NBC News
Apr 28, 2023 · The North Carolina Supreme Court reversed itself Friday on whether partisan gerrymandering and a strict voter ID law violate the state Constitution, in a pair rulings with implications far...
Gerrymandering: Latest News, Top Stories & Analysis - POLITICO
Gerrymandering News, Analysis and Opinion from POLITICO. Legal Supreme Court rejects claim that South Carolina’s congressional map was racially gerrymandered. By JOSH GERSTEIN …
Gerrymandering Isn’t New—But Now We Have a Solution - TIME
Apr 1, 2024 · Gerrymandering was one of many tools — including poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation — that Southern whites used to disenfranchise Black voters. This continued into …
Court rules N.Y. Democrats gerrymandered congressional map - NBC News
Apr 22, 2022 · ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state Democrats engaged in gerrymandering when drawing new congressional district boundaries for the next decade, a panel of five mid-level appellate judges ruled Thursday.
Gerrymandering, the Full Story - The New York Times
Sep 30, 2022 · Gerrymandering is a real problem for American democracy, especially in the drawing of state legislature districts, as The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer recently documented.
Redistricting: How gerrymandering works. How it affects your …
Nov 20, 2021 · Gerrymandering, along with restricting access to the ballot box, have emerged as the major challenges to US democracy. Here’s what this will all mean in the coming years.
Biggest problem with gerrymandering - Harvard Gazette
Jul 5, 2023 · Harvard researchers say gerrymandering is still a problem, but for perhaps less-obvious reasons. They found the tactic used by parties to gain a numerical advantage in Congress was widespread during the 2020 redistricting cycle, yet its effect on the partisan makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives was small.