Missouri Proposes Citizen-Only Redistricting
5/11: The Missouri government is considering a bill that would only take citizens into account when redistricting.
5/11: The Missouri government is considering a bill that would only take citizens into account when redistricting.
5/10: Ohio passed a bill that will add a ban on partisan redistricting to the state's constitution.
3/29: The Supreme Court has a complicated task ahead as it debates what to do about gerrymandering.
3/5: Former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh has filed a brief opposed to the court-drawn redistricting map.
3/7: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s map likely fails its own gerrymandering standards, because it skews so heavily democratic. The map submitted by the ACRU had more compact districts and fewer political subdivision splits.
2/26: ACRU’s Policy Board member and senior fellow Ken Blackwell points out the clear bias on the part of Pennsylvania Democrats in the state's redistricting case.
2/20: Republicans are fighting a court-drawn Pennsylvania map that may endanger several of the GOP seats, citing problems with the process.
2/20: The has submitted a map to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which by all accounts is superior to all other submitted maps.
2/5: ACRU tells the Supreme Court that the district court undermined judicial credibility by imposing a last minute legislative map on North Carolina, using a series of highly novel factual findings and legal theories.
1/18: ACRU’s amicus brief argued that the district court’s demand for a redrawn legislative map was unreasonable.