Gerrymandering didn’t make politics this vicious. But vicious politics will soon make gerrymandering so much worse.
Posted on AllSides July 15th, 2015
From The Left
It is endlessly suspicious when politicians control the process by which they and their allies are elected. Yet Arizona lawmakers had been battling their own citizens for precisely this power, in a lawsuit that culminated Monday in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding the right of voters — not legislators — to control how electoral districts are drawn.
In 2000, Arizonans voted to take the state legislature out of the redistricting process. They hoped to curb partisan gerrymandering by creating an indepe
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