Those maps were egregious examples of gerrymandering — the practice of manipulating the borders of congressional and state districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other. The ...

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.

On Dec. 13, The Fulcrum identified the worst examples of congressional gerrymandering currently in use. In that news report, David Meyers wrote: "With two post-census election cycles in the books ...

Of these methods, perhaps none has proven itself to be as effective and pervasive as that of gerrymandering, the process by which legislators draw and redraw electoral districts in such a way as ...

Illinoisans deserve a fair electoral system. We say it’s time for the Illinois Supreme Court to weigh in on Illinois’ ...

In his farewell address, President Ronald Reagan called gerrymandering the “greatest single blot on the integrity of our nation’s electoral system, and it’s high time we did something about ...

The Illinois Supreme Court looks poised to review the state’s legislative maps and whether they were illegally drawn to favor ...