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We talk with Durham representative Marcia Morey about the new Progressive House Caucus, and how it's pushing back against the ...
In a decision that shouldn't surprise anyone, the Democratic-majority Illinois Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' constitutional challenge to the state's gerrymandered House and Senate districts.
I am hopeful with the recent election of Justice Crawford by a large margin that the court is provided the opportunity to address our gerrymandered voting districts. Gerrymandering throughout the ...
The portrait of retired Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor was removed from the first floor Grand Concourse and placed in the basement. O’Connor was the first woman to serve as Chief ...
Gerrymandering is a manipulation of the redistricting process, a 10-year adjustment of state and federal voting districts. At the beginning of each decade in Indiana and 43 other states, the ...
This year’s state election results show Wisconsin’s districts are gerrymandered to favor republican legislators, according to an Wisconsin State Journal analysis of the election. Last Tuesday’s ...
The same holds true for gerrymandered electoral districts, according to Binghamton University political science researchers. Think of a gerrymander as a form of illness, Associate Professor Daniel B.
including the present case to overturn what are arguably the nation’s most gerrymandered legislative districts. Some background. For many years before he became defrocked, Chicago Ald.
Lawmakers, emboldened by their safe seats in gerrymandered districts, have actively limited engagement with their constituents. Congressional leadership has discouraged in-person town halls ...
Brent Kendall is the Law Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal. A longtime legal affairs reporter, he has covered the Supreme Court and lower courts across the country, as well as the Justice ...
O’Connor believed citizens should have the right to amend their constitution and also opposed gerrymandered political districts that unfairly favored one party over the other. Republicans who ...