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Why Can’t We Just Burn Gerrymandering To The Ground?

Gerrymandering has become a catch-all for what’s wrong with the American political system. The way we draw legislative districts takes the blame for partisan polarization, uncompetitive elections, marginalizing minorities and even rigging elections in favor of one party or the other. Gerrymandering has received so much scorn lately, you could be forgiven for thinking all […]

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Gerrymandering Is On Trial

Is partisan gerrymandering constitutional? And if not, how is it to be measured? Those are the questions at the heart of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the year, which the justices will hear next week. How the court answers those questions in the case, Gill v. Whitford, has the potential to […]

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