Why the Supreme Court’s latest gerrymandering decision doesn’t go far enough
Why the Supreme Court’s latest gerrymandering decision doesn’t go far enough
- June 17, 2019
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, in GQ, June 17, 2019
In 2018, a district court panel found that the other 11 districts were illegal racial
gerrymanders, too. Mark Herring, Virginia's Democratic attorney general, declined
to appeal, and Democratic governor Ralph Northam appointed Bernard Grofman, a political
science professor at University of California, Irvine, to re-draw the offending boundaries
before the 2019 election.
For the full story, please visit https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-court-virginia-gerrymandering.
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