Politico: In a surprise that left Democrats from Salem to Washington baffled and angry, the state House speaker handed the GOP an effective veto over the districts in exchange for a pledge to stop stymieing her legislative agenda with delay… Continue reading

Zack Stanton for Politico: For the past five years, Duchin has led Tufts’ Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, a lab that has quietly upended conventional wisdom about how gerrymandering works by approaching the issue less as a political problem than… Continue reading

As a follow-up to Nick’s post on the tradeoff between drawing reasonably compact districts and lowering the efficiency gap in a state like Illinois, this image of the districts in and around Chicago helps illustrate the district shapes the Democrats… Continue reading

Jim Oliphant column.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Friday rejected a plan meant to ensure lawsuits over new legislative and congressional district boundaries go to them instead of federal judges.The court voted to deny a request filed last summer to change… Continue reading

LAT: California voters created an independent redistricting commission to stop lawmakers and powerful interests from drawing gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts that consolidated their power at the expense of fair representation.That commission is now accused of routinely flouting the law… Continue reading

New Brennan Center report.

Politico: States are months away from getting the census data they need to draw new political maps, but courts are already filling up with lawsuits challenging the redistricting process.One of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers quickly filed three suits… Continue reading

Dave Wasserman from Cook Political Report: The power shift from the Frost Belt to Sun Belt and western states is a familiar trend. But even states without a gain or loss will have to redraw lines to adjust for population… Continue reading