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Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms did away with the old, ugly system. December 23, 2021 at 5:00 AM ... The goal of this year’s gerrymandering was to help Latino ...
Bi-partisan incumbent gerrymandering produced California's 38th congressional district, home to Grace Napolitano, a Democrat, who ran unopposed in 2004. This district was redrawn by California's non-partisan commission after the 2010 census.
A gerrymandered congressional district, the 11th CD of CA, drawn to favor Republican Richard Pombo.While the Danville area is a traditional Republican stronghold, Morgan Hill is not, and it was added to obtain the proper population numbers for the 11th after Livermore was assigned to the 10th at the behest of the incumbent Democrat, since it contains the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
This was substantiated, for example, in California, where the average percentage of competitive districts went from 5.6% in the decade preceding the 2010 introduction of an independent commission ...
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.
Americans’ reckoning with their own democracy extends beyond the looming presidential election to a much more local level.
Built by Jesse Kipp, Michael Dorfman, Mark Goberdhan, Kevin Mangubat, Pablo Valenzuela, Indra Tjhai, Angel Vladov, Marc Mance, Taneisha Kirchner, Siobhan Sudal ...
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission certified final district maps on August 15, 2011, and they took effect with the 2012 election. [14] The new districts are described as more "purple" than "red" or "blue" - that is, more mixed in electoral composition compared to the mostly "safe" districts of the previous decade, where incumbents ...