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The outcome in both of these cases is likely to be bad for opponents of gerrymandering, either racial gerrymandering or partisan gerrymandering, the question is: how bad. – Nick Seabrook	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You don't have an opportunity to object to the passage of those restrictive laws in your home state if there are suppressive voter laws -- and of course there are suppressive voter laws, in part because The US Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, the US Supreme Court has absented The US Supreme Court from the question of partisan gerrymandering, so there's no federal court solution. The US Supreme Court's really left to the states to deal with those issues. And The US Supreme Court's a bit like allowing a burglar to correct whatever he's stolen when he's burgled your home. – Melissa Murray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New York has an explicit constitutional prohibition on partisan gerrymandering. The Democrats violated that prohibition. They did it knowingly, they did it willingly, they did it joyfully. And the court today struck them down, this is a victory for the people of the state, and it's a victory for competitive and fair elections in New York state. – John Faso	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No, no, no, no, no, in national polling, it's extremely rare, because the way gerrymandering is worked, the way Democrats are packed into districts, you know, they have more than 85 percent districts and the Republicans do. The bottom line is generic ballot — if the Democrats are losing, it means they're going to get walloped. Last time in 2010, Republicans had a 2-point advantage that translated to 63 seats. – Chuck Todd	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Supreme Court has made clear that partisan gerrymanders are not justiciable, if [ the Alabama dispute ] portends Voting Rights Act, then that restraint on gerrymandering is gone. That would leave little but state law grounds to stop gerrymanderers from implementing their most creative thoughts. – Ben Ginsberg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While Republicans clearly think their best way back to power is suppressing and gerrymandering their way to a majority, Democrats are committed to the fight of protecting and expanding voting rights for all Americans. – Sean Patrick Maloney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. Gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. – American University	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is good news for Republican prospects for winning the majority, political science tells us the Democrats need a substantial lead in the national vote to take the House, maybe 4-7 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations. – Daron Shaw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Gerrymandering the States : Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism. it leads to legislators who are good at getting elected and raising money, but they don't know a lot about government. – Alex Keena	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The delay in receiving census data coupled with the adverse impact of extreme partisan gerrymandering should be of great concern to all North Carolinians, it is my hope that the condensed timeline will not be used as justification to obscure the redistricting process from engaged citizens who deserve an opportunity to choose their representatives, rather than allowing representatives to' choose their voters.'. – Wiley Nickel	Found on CNN 3 years ago
( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The presumption that Republicans should get all of those new seats simply because they control the process is a presumption of gerrymandering, and that is illegal. – Kelly Ward	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The 2020 election underscored the need for comprehensive, structural democracy reform, americans across the country were forced to overcome rampant voter suppression, gerrymandering and a torrent of special-interest dark money just to exercise their vote and their voice in our democracy. – John Sarbanes	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Without having a seat at the table next year, we will likely see an unprecedented level of gerrymandering. – Forward Majority	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.One will lose to Donald Trump. And the White House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red, and then between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years, we're going to live with this catastrophe. – Michael Bloomberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no hope for reform in some of the states with the worst gerrymandering. – Nicholas Stephanopoulos	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Just last year, the justices refused to step into the middle of the debate over partisan gerrymandering, finding ways to avoid ruling on the merits of a pair of cases arising out of Wisconsin and Maryland, the question is whether anything has changed such that we should expect something different in the two new cases The Supreme Court is going to hear in March. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If this Court does not take the opportunity, once and for all, to condemn political gerrymandering as the First Amendment violation that it is, it will be giving a green light to lawmakers across the country to engage in gerrymandering in 2020 like never before. – Michael Kimberly	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need Democratic governors to protect us, in the future, in our most basic right of choice, our ability to stop gerrymandering -- you're not going to be able to call Supreme Court. ... You're going to need a Democratic governor to call to protect your most basic rights. – Jay Inslee	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The court's summary rulings today in a pair of redistricting cases from North Carolina seem to drive home that the justices are not in a hurry to reconsider claims of partisan gerrymandering after sidestepping two major cases earlier this term, but that they will continue to pay close attention to claims that district lines were drawn due to race-based considerations, of course, whether Justice( Anthony) Kennedy's successor will tip the scales in favor or against these claims more categorically remains to be seen, so today's decisions are perhaps best understood as putting things into a holding pattern. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Most likely Justice Kennedy's vote is still in play when a case gets to the court with the right plaintiffs and the right theory of harm, and Kagan's concurrence today makes a powerful case to Justice Kennedy that when that case comes, Justice Elena Kagan should recognize that partisan gerrymandering is incompatible with the Constitution and democratic values. – Elizabeth Wydra	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We now have the opportunity to demonstrate the real and concrete harms that result from partisan gerrymandering in the lower court, the same court that struck down the Wisconsin mapping scheme to begin with. – Anthony Kennedy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Political science tells us the Democrats will need a substantial edge in the national vote, maybe 10 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations so they can take the House. – Republican Daron Shaw	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The redistricting reform passed today in Ohio makes it much harder for politicians to rig elections through gerrymandering and gives me hope that we can restore fairness to our elections in states around the country, ohio has proven that when citizens work together to demand their elected officials support a fair redistricting process, positive change is possible. – Eric Holder	Found on CNN 5 years ago

The outcome in both of these cases is likely to be bad for opponents of gerrymandering, either racial gerrymandering or partisan gerrymandering, the question is: how bad.

– Nick Seabrook

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You don't have an opportunity to object to the passage of those restrictive laws in your home state if there are suppressive voter laws -- and of course there are suppressive voter laws, in part because The US Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, the US Supreme Court has absented The US Supreme Court from the question of partisan gerrymandering, so there's no federal court solution. The US Supreme Court's really left to the states to deal with those issues. And The US Supreme Court's a bit like allowing a burglar to correct whatever he's stolen when he's burgled your home.

– Melissa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New York has an explicit constitutional prohibition on partisan gerrymandering. The Democrats violated that prohibition. They did it knowingly, they did it willingly, they did it joyfully. And the court today struck them down, this is a victory for the people of the state, and it's a victory for competitive and fair elections in New York state.

– John Faso

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No, no, no, no, no, in national polling, it's extremely rare, because the way gerrymandering is worked, the way Democrats are packed into districts, you know, they have more than 85 percent districts and the Republicans do. The bottom line is generic ballot — if the Democrats are losing, it means they're going to get walloped. Last time in 2010, Republicans had a 2-point advantage that translated to 63 seats.

– Chuck Todd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Supreme Court has made clear that partisan gerrymanders are not justiciable, if [ the Alabama dispute ] portends Voting Rights Act, then that restraint on gerrymandering is gone. That would leave little but state law grounds to stop gerrymanderers from implementing their most creative thoughts.

– Ben Ginsberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While Republicans clearly think their best way back to power is suppressing and gerrymandering their way to a majority, Democrats are committed to the fight of protecting and expanding voting rights for all Americans.

– Sean Patrick Maloney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. Gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual.

– American University

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is good news for Republican prospects for winning the majority, political science tells us the Democrats need a substantial lead in the national vote to take the House, maybe 4-7 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations.

– Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gerrymandering the States : Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism. it leads to legislators who are good at getting elected and raising money, but they don't know a lot about government.

– Alex Keena

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The delay in receiving census data coupled with the adverse impact of extreme partisan gerrymandering should be of great concern to all North Carolinians, it is my hope that the condensed timeline will not be used as justification to obscure the redistricting process from engaged citizens who deserve an opportunity to choose their representatives, rather than allowing representatives to' choose their voters.'.

– Wiley Nickel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The presumption that Republicans should get all of those new seats simply because they control the process is a presumption of gerrymandering, and that is illegal.

– Kelly Ward

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The 2020 election underscored the need for comprehensive, structural democracy reform, americans across the country were forced to overcome rampant voter suppression, gerrymandering and a torrent of special-interest dark money just to exercise their vote and their voice in our democracy.

– John Sarbanes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Without having a seat at the table next year, we will likely see an unprecedented level of gerrymandering.

– Forward Majority

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.One will lose to Donald Trump. And the White House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red, and then between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years, we're going to live with this catastrophe.

– Michael Bloomberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There's no hope for reform in some of the states with the worst gerrymandering.

– Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Just last year, the justices refused to step into the middle of the debate over partisan gerrymandering, finding ways to avoid ruling on the merits of a pair of cases arising out of Wisconsin and Maryland, the question is whether anything has changed such that we should expect something different in the two new cases The Supreme Court is going to hear in March.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If this Court does not take the opportunity, once and for all, to condemn political gerrymandering as the First Amendment violation that it is, it will be giving a green light to lawmakers across the country to engage in gerrymandering in 2020 like never before.

– Michael Kimberly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We need Democratic governors to protect us, in the future, in our most basic right of choice, our ability to stop gerrymandering -- you're not going to be able to call Supreme Court. ... You're going to need a Democratic governor to call to protect your most basic rights.

– Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The court's summary rulings today in a pair of redistricting cases from North Carolina seem to drive home that the justices are not in a hurry to reconsider claims of partisan gerrymandering after sidestepping two major cases earlier this term, but that they will continue to pay close attention to claims that district lines were drawn due to race-based considerations, of course, whether Justice( Anthony) Kennedy's successor will tip the scales in favor or against these claims more categorically remains to be seen, so today's decisions are perhaps best understood as putting things into a holding pattern.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Most likely Justice Kennedy's vote is still in play when a case gets to the court with the right plaintiffs and the right theory of harm, and Kagan's concurrence today makes a powerful case to Justice Kennedy that when that case comes, Justice Elena Kagan should recognize that partisan gerrymandering is incompatible with the Constitution and democratic values.

– Elizabeth Wydra

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We now have the opportunity to demonstrate the real and concrete harms that result from partisan gerrymandering in the lower court, the same court that struck down the Wisconsin mapping scheme to begin with.

– Anthony Kennedy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Political science tells us the Democrats will need a substantial edge in the national vote, maybe 10 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations so they can take the House.

– Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The redistricting reform passed today in Ohio makes it much harder for politicians to rig elections through gerrymandering and gives me hope that we can restore fairness to our elections in states around the country, ohio has proven that when citizens work together to demand their elected officials support a fair redistricting process, positive change is possible.

– Eric Holder

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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