Maryland congressional map thrown out by judges

Gerrymandering is wrong, no matter which party does it. The Maryland map, done by Democrats, should be thrown out. Most gerrymandering has been done by Republicans.

A three-judge panel of a federal court on Wednesday threw out Maryland’s congressional map, reviving the legal fight over partisan gerrymandering just one day after the 2018 midterm electionshttps://t.co/EuYLkmMro7

— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2018

Excellent background on gerrymandering

Below is an excerpt from my new book — part of the chapter about how Dems got caught napping by GOP gerrymandering strategy, and how we're still paying the price for it today. If you liked, you can pick up the book here: https://t.co/rWsq7vUAaG https://t.co/lG97wQYfTk

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 4, 2018

What’s next in the fight against gerrymandering

What comes next in the fight against partisan gerrymandering (@johnmsides) https://t.co/odnwaH8z35

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) October 13, 2018

North Carolina court strikes down map again

Opinion: Fair elections just won a victory in the courts. Now the Republican assault begins. https://t.co/LjXlRCxde3

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 28, 2018

Federal judges have affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship. https://t.co/waDdB7ISlo

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 28, 2018

Here's how gerrymandered North Carolina's congressional map is. Republicans won 10 of 13 seats in 2016 despite Trump's narrow win statewide. A nonpartisan map like the one below could have seen Dems win 2-5 more districts had it been in effect this decade https://t.co/bjwahIZyEZ pic.twitter.com/yI2LczFwpx

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018

If North Carolina were required to redistrict, would be worth another ~2 seats or so for Democrats. Although with a high margin for error because of all of this happening at such a late date. https://t.co/uSQZ9IsPyX

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 27, 2018

Under somewhat similar circumstances in 1996 in Texas, the state held nonpartisan blanket primaries (basically what they do in Louisiana) on the November election date and then runoffs in December in cases where no candidate won a majority.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 27, 2018

BREAKING: Federal court rules that plaintiffs in North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case have standing to pursue claims (with one exception) and affirms earlier ruling that congressional map is unconstitutional. https://t.co/kHGyAQUnds #fairmaps 1/

— Michael Li (@mcpli) August 27, 2018

The federal court is not ruling out throwing out North Carolina's current congressional plan for the 2018 election. Raises possibility of having a primary in November, followed by a general election before the new congress is seated.

— Sam Levine (@srl) August 27, 2018

Since Republicans took over North Carolina's legislature in 2010 & began their all-out assault on democracy, they have gerrymandered:
Congress
State legislature
County commissions
City councils
School boards
District courts
All but the last have gotten struck down at least once

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018

Court says it has not yet decided whether to give the North Carolina legislature the opportunity to attempt to redraw congressional map, but says that if the NC lege wants to redraw map it needs to finish process by 9/17 at 5 p.m. #fairmaps 3/ pic.twitter.com/Jq2r8uWk5a

— Michael Li (@mcpli) August 27, 2018

North Carolina Republicans literally admitted to partisan gerrymandering to defend themselves from racial gerrymandering claims. They stated loudly that they drew a 10R-3D gerrymander because they (rightly) thought 11R-2D was impossible https://t.co/7X1KVOMaX2

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018

BREAKING: Federal court strikes down North Carolina's congressional districts due to partisan gerrymandering.

See how NC's districts have changed over time ↓https://t.co/WP4uz9QgiI pic.twitter.com/V056oyglHW

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 27, 2018

Michigan gerrymandering

New emails add ammunition to charges that Michigan Republicans engaged in egregiously racial and partisan gerrymandering.

The emails boast of concentrating “Dem garbage” into several districts Dems now control.https://t.co/jUBoNoh3b8 pic.twitter.com/3mUaoeEYS3

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) July 26, 2018

How decadelong Republican gerrymanders could be undone by reckless GOP emails: https://t.co/cRhTNiG1bm pic.twitter.com/jlFY7s2bIa

— Slate (@Slate) July 31, 2018

Republicans in VA want to keep racial gerrymandering

They want to appeal a court ruling that struck down the racial gerrymandering and ordered new legislative districts.

Now that a federal court has found racial gerrymandering in Virginia's House of Delegates districts, it's time to fix the problem, right the wrong, and make fair, constitutional districts. We don’t need to spend more time and taxpayer money appealing. https://t.co/xT4d1q0rk3

— Mark Herring (@MarkHerringVA) July 19, 2018

Atlas of Redistricting

So excited that our Atlas of Redistricting won News Data App of the Year!! Congrats to our crew @ellawinthrop @juruwolfe @bycoffe @RitchieSKing and everyone at @FiveThirtyEight who made it a reality. https://t.co/wXjtqxlFYi

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 3, 2018

Texas racial gerrymandering

How Texas Republicans got away with a racially discriminatory electoral map: https://t.co/l9CRoYIE1z pic.twitter.com/izfcymQORx

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) July 1, 2018

Wisconsin’s governor lied about the gerrymandering court decision

from the editorial linked to in the tweet

“The governor is so committed to keeping the corrupted lines that he lied — about the court’s decision.”

Why are Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans afraid of fair districting? Because they fear the very people – Wisconsin voters – they claim they want to represent. Walker and friends are beholden to special interests and fat cat donors. Vote them out https://t.co/tZMTSaOz1g

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) June 28, 2018

update 12/10/18

How egregious was gerrymandering in Wisconsin? WI GOP literally drew district that included house of GOP state senator but none of his Democratic neighbors. In 2018 Wisconsin Republicans got 46% of votes but 63% of seats, which enabled lame duck coup https://t.co/INzWFCOCrC pic.twitter.com/HN52t1zirg

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) December 10, 2018