Mark Joseph Stern: North Carolina Republicans have spent the last eight years ruthlessly undermining democracy in their state. The key to their extraordinary success is a series of partisan gerrymanders that dilute the power of Democrats’ vote, allowing the GOP… Continue reading

Here’s a guest post from Mike Parsons: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Va. House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill (“Bethune-Hill II”) and directed the parties to brief whether Appellants have standing.  This racial gerrymandering case challenging 12 Virginia… Continue reading

Release: Today, Common Cause, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and a group of individual North Carolina voters are suing the state of North Carolina over the partisan gerrymandering of legislative maps for both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly.… Continue reading

Charles Lane WaPo column.  Even though I’ve been ambivalent about whether courts should intervene to stop gerrymanders on federal constitutional grounds, I find very unpersuasive the argument that a wave election shows that federal intervention is unnecessary.

William Adler and Stuart Thompson NYT oped, with some very informative graphics.

Hi, all.  Justin here. On Tuesday, voters in Colorado, Michigan, and maybe Utah (it’s still too close to call) approved ballot initatives changing the process for drawing state legislative and congressional lines, and voters in Missouri approved an initiative changing… Continue reading

Detroit News: A conservative group with ties to the powerful DeVos family of West Michigan is pumping at least $1.2 million into an effort to fight a ballot measure for an independent redistricting commission. The spending by the Michigan Freedom… Continue reading