gerrymandering

Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.

The word is two centuries old.

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?

How transphobia has been a consistent liability for Republicans, and why the right refuses to give it up.