U.S. Supreme Court,
Government,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 15, 2016
Let the democratic process work
The national political process may be dramatically changed by a recent decision of a three-judge federal court in Wisconsin that invalidated the partisan gerrymandering of the Wisconsin legislature.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
The national political process may be dramatically changed by a recent decision of a three-judge federal court in Wisconsin that invalidated the partisan gerrymandering of the Wisconsin legislature. On Nov. 21, in Whitford v. Gill, the court held that the gerrymandering denied equal protection. If this ruling is affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, this would change districting for state legislatures and the House of Representatives in many states across the country.
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