Legislators have gone so far as to claim it’s “a myth” that courts have the power to strike down laws. So far, however, the ...

Ironically, it was Elbridge Gerry — after whom the word “gerrymandering” was created ... tax to fund a desegregation plan for schools in Kansas City, Missouri. Clark decreed that Missouri ...

Freshman Sen. Patrick Schmidt, a Topeka Democrat, talks about property tax relief and other topics on the Kansas Reflector ...

The Pitch has partnered with a local political awareness organization called Loud Light. Their goal is to engage and empower individuals from underrepresented populations to build community power. And ...

Reflector Podcast · A Kansas Senate newbie's perspective of this year's session ... The district shouldn’t even exist, Schmidt said. He blames GOP gerrymandering for a disconnect between the ...

Orr’s lawsuit, now before the state Court of Appeals, argues that a legislative redistricting process that overfills what ...

Bob Orr, a former state Supreme Court justice, knows his way around the state Constitution and he thinks he’s found in it a way to disarm the most potent of political weapons – gerrymandering.

Larry King (left) and Dennis Burns (right) hold up a large banner as the backdrop for speakers at the “Rally to End Gerrymandering” on the Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh, N.C. on March 1 ...

Major institutions that evaluate the status of democracy in the world have cited gerrymandering as a contributing factor to the erosion of democracy in the U.S. The Economist publishes an annual ...

After decades of gerrymandering and political polarization, a vast majority of members of Congress and state legislatures did not face competitive general elections last year. Instead, they were ...

Here’s another assumption punctured by the 2024 election: that gerrymandering and Democratic vote-clustering give Republicans a structural advantage in the battle for control of the House of ...