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The Politics of Redistricting and Gerrymandering

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The Supreme Court has ruled that extreme partisan gerrymandering is a political question that federal courts cannot decide (Rucho v. Common Cause, 2019), yet racial gerrymandering remains reviewable under the Voting Rights Act, leaving a legal gap.

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Every ten years, the lines that determine who represents you in Congress are redrawn—often not by judges, but by the very politicians whose jobs depend on those lines. How do they get away with it?