Introduction: Gerrymandering has long been a contentious issue in electoral politics, shaping the way legislative districts ...

Daniel Magleby and Michael D. McDonald have written this draft for ELJ. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court has turned over efforts to limit gerrymanders to politics and willing state courts.

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I wrote this column in today’s Washington Post on the evaporation of the U.S. House’s longstanding pro-Republican bias in the 2020s. For more than two decades, the ...

Citizens in half the states have the power to place initiatives or referendums on the ballot. That process is under threat, ...

Under terms of a legal settlement, redistricting changes will be put to City of Miami voters in November to prevent bias in ...

Alternative electoral systems—such as ranking systems or list-based proportional systems—could enhance representation in the ...

Gerrymandering reduces electoral competition ... Out west, California and Arizona have similar commissions that have drawn districts that better reflect the political diversity of voters.

It was a certainly a joy to read Ray LaHood and Jim Nowlan’s op-ed about the gerrymandering of Illinois’ state House and congressional districts. I am looking forward to their condemnation of ...

in state House District 105 and state Senate District 7. While Orr’s argument is new, the result is familiar. Attempts to stop gerrymandering tend to bounce like rocks off a tank of political power.