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The November elections of 2010 brought more propositions regarding redistricting and gerrymandering. Two propositions were on the ballot. Prop 20 would extend Prop 11 to the redrawing of CDs in addition to the state districts encompassed by Prop 11.
Lamone was a separate partisan gerrymandering case heard by the Supreme Court in the 2017 term, this over perceived Democratic-favored redistricting of Maryland's 6th congressional district, with plaintiffs trying to get a stay on the use of the new district maps prior to the October 2018 general election.
In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by a 2008 referendum. In stark contrast to the redistricting efforts that followed ...
Gerrymandering was supposed to be cured by redistricting reform. No chance. It’s still alive and well in California. That was evident in the just-completed once-a-decade redrawing of California ...
Proposition 11 of 2008 (or the Voters FIRST Act) was a law enacted by California voters that placed the power to draw electoral boundaries for State Assembly and State Senate districts in a Citizens Redistricting Commission, as opposed to the State Legislature.
[15] [17] [18] In the previous 10 years, incumbents were so safe that only one Congressional seat changed party control in 255 elections, [15] due to bipartisan gerrymandering after the redistricting following the 2000 census.
Common Cause, in which the majority determined that the federal courts cannot adjudicate partisan gerrymandering, “Election Day . . . is the foundation of democratic governance. And partisan ...
Americans’ reckoning with their own democracy extends beyond the looming presidential election to a much more local level. A moment of reckoning for gerrymandering Skip to main content