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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 ...
The California/Hawaii and Los Angeles NAACP, [34] [35] the Armenian National Committee of America [36] and the SAG-AFTRA union called for the resignation of all four individuals involved. [37] On October 11, President Joe Biden called on all three councilmembers to resign from the council.
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 ...
Many of today's problems can be traced back to ... It happened in 2000 and 2016, and it almost happened in 2004 and 2020. ... But partisan gerrymandering — where the political party that ...
Americans’ reckoning with their own democracy extends beyond the looming presidential election to a much more local level.
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.