A combination of gerrymandering of districts and packing the Supreme Court with jurists chosen by the conservative Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation have pushed U.S. policy “in a rightward di ...

Letters: Do better for dog attack victims. You lost me at "Christian conservative." Republicans are disrespecting the people ...

If our representatives in Washington D.C. do not address these overreaches by the President and his allies, then our rights ...

Once Brown's plans are known, plenty of other Democrats will be ready to go, predicted Greg Beswick, a former Ohio Democratic ...

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.

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

The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to ...

Nick Seabrook breaks down the odd history and continued practice of gerrymandering—what attempts have been made to change it.

Jacob Hooper has written this student note for the George Mason Law Review. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s 2023 Allen v. Milligan decision upheld Thornburg v. Gingles from 1986. Gingles ...

For better or worse, November 2024 elections were a triumph for Republicans nationwide. And margins for the GOP in deep-blue ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday in Selma, civil rights activists’ progress in securing equal access to the ballot is being ...