Fear of democratic decline is all around us. 1 A growing literature offers different diagnoses
of what ails American democracy. Some focus on severe economic or social inequality, 2 …

State legislatures are tasked with drawing state and federal districts and administering
election law, among many other responsibilities. Yet state legislatures are themselves …

ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATURE v. AIRC 135 S.Ct. 2652 (2015) 576 US 787 ARIZONA STATE
LEGISLATURE, Appellant v. ARIZONA INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION …

The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or
replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country. A common element in …

The federal government is dysfunctional, largely because of Congress's inability to pass
laws that solve the problems facing the country. Numerous opinion polls rate Congress at …

A number of states have empowered independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) to
redraw legislative districts each decade following the US Census. Reformers see IRCs …

Abstract In League of Women Voters et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania et al.(2018),
henceforth abbreviated LWV, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down that state's …

State-level redistricting processes shape congressional elections and representation, and
recent reform efforts have propelled congressional redistricting procedures into mainstream …

Compactness of a congressional district is a traditional principle in adjudicating
gerrymandering claims in political redistricting. During the last decade, many states have …

I discuss four articles in Election Law Journal on partisan gerrymandering that were written
after the Supreme Court's decision in Gill v. Whitford, and I lay out my own post-Gill views on …