The U.S. Supreme Court got it exactly right this past week in Chatfield v. League of Women Voters when it…
9/18: The new district map approve by the North Carolina General Assembly still gives republicans an advantage in the 2020 elections some experts in the state claim.
9/14: North Carolina’s house has passed a new legislative district map for 13 of the 14 districts Federal Courts mandated the state change.
9/8: Former Attorney General Eric Holder has been using skewed figures and the courts to gerrymander districts around the country.
9/4: Democrats have set their sights on changing how we redistrict, in hopes of turning elections in their favor.
9/4: An Eric Holder-backed group helped North Carolina Democrats sue to get a new legislative map adopted—one that will greatly benefit the Democrats in the 2020 elections.
8/28: Former speaker of the house New Gingrich is saying that Obama’s anti-gerrymandering initiative is a partisan crusade that shouldn’t be taken seriously.
8/27: Former president Barack Obama has launched Redistricting U, a program dedicated to fighting what they see as partisan gerrymandering in the United States.
8/22: The Michigan Republican Party is suing to keep the state from creating an independent redistricting commission.
8/15: Though non-partisan redistricting via commission is billed as fair, the result is underpopulated districts and chaos.