Expert Warns Of ‘Real Festival Of Partisan Gerrymandering’ In 2021

In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Common Cause v. Rucho case which ruled that gerrymandering cases are a non-justiciable issue, citizen grassroots efforts have emerged to use other means to prevent partisan gerrymandering and other voter suppression efforts. These locally organized efforts have led to initiative petition victories to create non-partisan redistricting commissions in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Utah, expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in Idaho, and restored voting rights for former felons in Florida and Alabama. Journalist David Daley, a senior fellow at Fair Vote, writes about these efforts in his latest book, “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/19/836260800/expert-warns-of-real-festival-of-partisan-gerrymandering-in-2021