Gerrymandering
End gerrymandering: Senate can safeguard democracy by outlawing partisan redistricting
Our View: Dozens of states still do not have redistricting commissions. In several, 1 party controls the legislature and the redistricting process. The quickest solution is for Congress to act.
The Editorial Board
USA TODAY
The shameful season of the gerrymander is in full bloom as state lawmakers redraw legislative and congressional districts so they can choose their voters rather than the other way around.
Just weeks after 2020 Census data was released showing the population has shifted and grown, redistricting knives came out.
Texas Republicans carved up the Houston district that House Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has held for three decades, stripping out predominantly Black neighborhoods and potentially forcing her into a primary against another Democratic incumbent. Districts also were redrawn to double the number of electorally safe Republican congressional seats from 11 to 22.