Rory Riley-Topping
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Co-author, Draw the Line in Ohio: How One State's Fight For Fair Maps Explains Gerrymandering in America, out 9/15 w/@prometheusbks @GlobePequot @simonschuster
Graham Platner suggests Democrats should take a page out of the GOP’s playbook in Ohio and ignore Virginia’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down the 10D-1R map #MaineSenate
“You would have thought we had reached rock bottom on this issue … But apparently we haven’t.”
How a year of gerrymandering has further slashed competitive House seats dlvr.it/TSYD8V
Axios: Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) moves to force vote to ban mid-cycle redistricting Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-Calif.) introduced a discharge petition Tuesday to force a House vote on his bill banning mid-cycle redistricting, Axios has learned. Kiley's bill would prohibit states from redrawing congressional maps more than once every 10 years, after the census, unless a federal court orders it. axios.com/2026/05/13/kev…
Gerrymandering — it’s the process of redrawing political voting lines to benefit the party in power. It's named after Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, who created a district resembling a salamander. Thus, the “Gerry-mander.” cbsn.ws/3RwfPlm
Is there an easy way for Congress to legislatively end partisan gerrymandering that wouldn't skew toward one party? I don't know what the solution is, but it looks like we're in a race to the bottom on this, and it really is an awful pratice.
I’m reading up on the 2022 Ohio redistricting fiasco. The state Supreme Court ruled that the legislature’s congressional map was unconstitutional. So the legislature responded by having the GOP-controlled redistricting commission pass a different map. That map was also illegal, per the parameters laid out in the state Supreme Court’s own prior ruling. But the state Supreme Court essentially said, “it’s too late now, nothing we can do, plaintiffs will have to try and overturn this map in 2024.” The big difference between Ohio and, for example, Pennsylvania, is that in PA, the state Supreme Court has the power to draw its own congressional map in cases where the legislature won’t comply. That’s exactly what happened in 2018. The *Ohio* Supreme Court, meanwhile… does *not* have that power.
Graham Platner suggests Democrats should take a page out of the GOP’s playbook in Ohio and ignore Virginia’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down the 10D-1R map #MaineSenate
I hate all gerrymandering and it should be illegal. Full stop - it's awful when democrats do it, it's awful when republicans do it. American citizens have their voices and representation robbed of them.
