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One extreme example is Waupun, Wisconsin, where two city council districts are made up of 61% and 76% incarcerated people, but as of 2019, neither elected representative has visited the local prisons. [70] "Prison gerrymandering" has been criticized for distorting racial demographics and, as a result, political representation. [71]
Those maps were egregious examples of gerrymandering — the practice of manipulating the borders of congressional and state districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other. The ...
Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, 588 U.S. 684 (2019) is a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. [1] The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.
The effect of gerrymandering for incumbents is particularly advantageous, as they are far more likely to be reelected under conditions of gerrymandering. For example, in 2002, according to political scientists Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, only four challengers were able to defeat incumbent members of the U.S. Congress, the lowest number in ...
The commission voted to approve the settlement 4-1 Thursday, with Commissioner Joe Carollo voting no. Carollo, who disagreed with the judge’s gerrymandering finding, presented demographic data ...
The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms ...
“Let’s just use my race as an example: I won one race by 1 per cent and another one by 3 per cent [but] the Republicans had a supermajority in the Senate and a huge majority in the assembly ...
Gerrymandering in the redistricting process has been a problem since the early days of the republic. [8] In recent years, critics have argued that redistricting has been used to neutralize minority voting power. [9] Supporters say it enhances electoral competitiveness. [10]