To be sure, the California law goes further than the federal law has (so far), and indeed was passed to circumvent limits put on racial gerrymandering by the U.S. Supreme Court. But a successful ...

New York and California. While most good government advocates would say that eliminating gerrymandering is a positive development in these states, it could disadvantage Democrats because ...

The case tests the balancing act states must strike in protecting the voting power of a racial minority while not ...

Gerrymandering was first put on the map in ... This was substantiated, for example, in California, where the average percentage of competitive districts went from 5.6% in the decade preceding ...

The Court decided an identical case two years ago. But every voting rights case that reaches this Court is dangerous.

This decade, Illinois’s Democratic gerrymandering boosted Democrats by 3.5 seats on average. California’s commission-drawn map netted them roughly 4.5 bonus seats, possibly because the spatial ...

Gerrymandering creates districts so safe ... Even though both parties hated open primaries and redistricting reform in California, voters’ approval ratings of their elected officials have ...