Elections play an important role in community governance, influencing how local government officials address public needs. In ...

A combination of gerrymandering of districts and packing the Supreme Court with jurists chosen by the conservative Federalist ...

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.

Citizens in half the states have the power to place initiatives or referendums on the ballot. That process is under threat, ...

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

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

The League of Women Voters in Freeport gathered to try to put an end to gerrymandering; “an egregious form of voter suppression.” Ryan Tolley, the executive director of CHANGE 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 ...

“I prefer to call it the gerrymandering of local government ... “Annan High Street, for example, is funded for maintenance at the same rate as Hope Street, one of Europe’s busiest urban ...

HAVING ELBOWED HIS WAY INTO an illicit co-presidency, shut down entire agencies because he felt like it, fired thousands of federal workers without grounds or authority, and begun laying his hands on ...