“There are all these voter-suppression laws being passed around the country, but in a lot of ways those are like a death by a thousand cuts,” mcpli said. “But gerrymandering is a little bit like a nuclear bomb that levels everything in its place.”
did not emerge in the United States until the last years of the eighteenth century, so the Framers did not anticipate that the redistricting process could become a tool wielded by officeholders to enhance their political fortunes. “Redistricting, in and of itself, can be democracy-protecting—a way of simply realigning representation,” Guy-Uriel Charles, a scholar of voting and elections at Harvard Law School, told me. “It also provides an opportunity for misalignment.
In 1812, Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, carved up an electoral district held by rival Federalists in a distinctly contorted way.
The other part of the N.D.R.C..’s strategy is to bring the fight for fair maps to the courts. Of more than thirty-one lawsuits challenging redistricting maps this cycle, the majority have been brought by Democrats, many supported by the N.D.R.C. But, with so many state courts also in Republican hands, the results have been mixed.
The redistricting process may seem arcane and academic, even negligible, but it is a foundation of representative democracy. “There are all these voter-suppression laws being passed around the country, but in a lot of ways those are like a death by a thousand cuts that make it harder in incremental ways to vote,” Michael Li, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice, told me. “But gerrymandering is a little bit like a nuclear bomb that levels everything in its place.
“[Samuel] Alito is, like, Dude, just leave it up to the states,” Burton said, of the Supreme Court Justice who wrote the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. “O.K., so let’s talk about the state of Ohio. Let’s say that the Roe ruling comes down, and the Ohio legislature adopts extreme abortion measures, even if the majority of Ohioans oppose them. When those voters go to the polls, they are not going to be able to hold those politicians accountable because of gerrymandering.
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