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Constitutional Law

Mar. 3, 2015

Arizona's district drawing method, like ours, is A-OK

Direct democracy, gerrymandering and federal court standing - three contentious topics - are on stage Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court. By Vikram David Amar


By Vikram David Amar


Direct democracy, gerrymandering and federal court standing - three contentious topics - are on stage Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Arizona Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.


Arizona is one of only two states - California being the other - where voters (responding to state legislatures' tendency to engage in problematic gerrymandering) passed an initiative giving the job of...

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