Why Partisan Gerrymandering is Constitutional

This episode takes a look at three different cases: Reynolds v. Sims (1964) about malapportioned districts; Shaw v. Reno (1993) about racial gerrymandering; and Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) about partisan gerrymandering. According to the Supreme Court, districts cannot be malapportioned or drawn in a way that intentionally groups voters based on race. The practice of intentionally grouping voters based on partisanship is not something the Court is willing to address, however, and Chief Justice John Roberts explains why in his opinion announcement in Rucho.

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The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.