Gerrymandering
A redistricting commission has redrawn the political districts for the state of Michigan, and the new map has turned one of the most gerrymandered states into one of the fairest. Every 10 years, each U.S. state must perform the process of redistricting, in which it redraws the boundaries of its congressional and state legislative districts. A decade ago, Michigan Republicans drew heavily gerrymandered districts that strongly favored the party, thereby ensuring a seemingly impenetrable majority in the state Legislature. However, a Michigan citizen ballot initiative took the process out of the h...
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The United States Department of Justice has announced that it is suing the State of Texas and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for creating redistricting maps that it claims were engineered to discriminate against non-white voters. “Today, the Justice Department has filed suit against the State of Texas for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference. “As the Supreme Court has observed, a core principle of our democracy is that ‘voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.’ Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act req...
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