When does partisan gerrymandering cross the line?

Pennsylvania Supreme Court to decide if state congressional district ...

Plaintiffs claim Republican lawmakers, who drew the congressional map, violated their state constitutional rights, and are requesting the court ...

Rucho v. Common Cause - Supreme Court of the United States

Whether plaintiffs' partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable. 3. Whether North Carolina's 2016 congressional map is, in fact, an ...

Guide to Fair Redistricting - APSA Preprints

The approach can be used to construct fair maps of Congressional or State Legislative districts, or of any other jurisdiction. As more people become aware of ...

Procedural Integrity and Partisan Gerrymandering

Common Cause, Justice Kagan articulated the concern that the practice of partisan gerrymandering endangers the legitimacy of American democracy.

Geographic Gerrymandering - Digital Commons @ UIdaho Law

But electoral districting, a traditional practice that still predominates, reflects a geographic theory of representation focused on the ...

Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering - SpringerLink

The so-called gerrymanderer faces two issues: the number of districts is finite and there is uncertainty at the level of each district.

DESIGNING INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS

This Guide is intended to arm legislators, good government advocates, and activists with the knowledge needed to design an independent redistricting commission ...

How Gerrymandering Works - People | HowStuffWorks

Gerrymandering can be occur in state legislative districts, but it also can be used to enable one party to dominate a state's congressional delegation as well.

Gill v. Whitford: Wisconsin's Partisan Gerrymandering Case

For the first time, a federal district court struck down a state legislative redistricting plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. In the three-judge ...

What We Know About Redistricting and Redistricting Reform

We all think we know what partisan gerrymandering is. It is the process by which partisans draw legislative districts to ensure that their party wins as many ...

Politicians, Voters, and Gerrymandering - Cato Institute

Redistricting reform has been on the march in recent years, with about a dozen states embarking on systematic reforms of how district lines are drawn, ...

How to Draw Redistricting Plans That Will Stand Up in Court

“Packing” is drawing district boundary lines so that voters who support candidates of the minority party are concentrated, or “packed,” into as few districts as ...

Against Partisan Gerrymandering

Under Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution, state legislatures exercise the districting power subject to supervening congressional regulation. 3. The ...

Can State Courts Cure Partisan Gerrymandering: Lessons from ...

(2018), henceforth abbreviated LWV, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down that state's congressional plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. It ...

Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining ...

This paper studies American congressional redistricting, a political process often exploited by partisan actors to enact districting plans that ...

Why is Gerrymandering So Bad? A State-by-State Guide

Read on to learn how politicians gerrymander, which states most urgently need reform, and how passing the Freedom to Vote Act would end rigged election maps ...

The Political Question Doctrine After Rucho v. Common Cause

Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that partisan-gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The decision ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process - DSpace@MIT

We first show that the partisan outcome of legislative elections has important causal effects on the ideological representation of individual districts, the ...

Unfair Partisan Gerrymanders in Politics and Law: A Diagnostic ...

Abstract We propose standards for detecting partisan gerrymandering as a finding of fact and for determining whether the factual finding is legally ...

Are Firms Gerrymandered? | American Political Science Review

We provide the first evidence that firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered. We compare allocations of firms in enacted redistricting plans to counterfactual ...