You asked, now Newsweek answers. There is a clash at the heart of 2025's redistricting fights, and it's bigger than the president.

Dispatch Board California voters have temporarily suspended their state’s admirable anti-gerrymandering law in order to gerrymander a more Democratic-leaning U.S. House delegation. The Golden State’s ...

If something like that couldn’t put Newsom in an early lead in the 2028 Democratic presidential sweepstakes, it’s hard to see ...

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OMAHA, Neb. — As states consider redrawing their congressional district lines to favor one political party, some politicians warn that attempts to gerrymander can devolve into “dummymandering,” when ...

Not even a week after that, Newsom was back in the catbird seat after a federal appeals court in Texas threw out that state’s gerrymandered congressional district plan – which earlier provided the ...

The office of Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is arguing in court that Missouri's 2022 congressional map, which was drawn ...

The highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana v. Callais will affect the Voting Rights Act, which led to the creation of majority-minority districts in many states. Without such districts, ...

Texas’ gerrymander launched a redistricting war unlike any ever seen before. Facing falling approval numbers and the prospect ...

Rick Pildes has a characteristically thoughtful post responding to my Slate piece with Matthew Cooke arguing that when the three-judge court assesses whether California voters approved a racial ...

My student Matthew Cooke and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: California Republicans, now joined by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, have sued California in federal ...