This might be the way to prove partisan gerrymandering, according to the new Supreme Court standard
This might be the way to prove partisan gerrymandering, according to the new Supreme Court standard
- July 9, 2018
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, via The Washington Post, July 9, 2018
Bernard Grofman, Jack W. Peltason Chair of Democracy Studies at the University of California, Irvine, writes, “Last month, the Supreme Court dismayed opponents of partisan gerrymandering in two cases …. The court remanded both cases back to the district courts for review under a new standard for challenging a partisan gerrymander. What is that new standard?”
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