Gerrymandering; Drawing Distinctions about Drawing New Lines

Political science professors Alex Keena and Michael Latner cut through all the dizzying details of the Congressional district mapping around the country, as the gerrymandering erodes representation and confidence in our democracy.  A local treatment of this story as it continues to develop, will be conducted in the near future on this podcast. 

Before class is dismissed, listeners may have a look at any of the following publications: 

https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/what-the-apportionment-act-of-1842

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151681

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/gerrymandering-in-america/C2A9A40879A353AC7484B49834CB54E4#fndtn-information

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/gerrymandering-the-states/27FBE0280F339E739758A29DF7CD74A2

Music credits: Alexis Lombre, “A Blues in Tyne.”