Wisconsin's Supreme Court Race Could Restore Democracy in America's Most Gerrymandered State

Gerrymandering, the process by which elected officials draw legislative and congressional district maps that benefit themselves and their parties, is widely understood as antithetical to democracy. Decrying the maneuvers by which partisan politicians use the redistricting process to gain “control of state legislatures and congressional delegations before a single vote is cast,” former President Barack Obama explains, “That is not how democracy is supposed to work.” Yet, in the battleground state of Wisconsin, that is exactly how democracy has worked—or, to be more precise, not worked—for more than a decade....