Kagan Says Supreme Court Rulings Damaged Democracy

Supreme Court scales and voting tokens

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Tuesday that her conservative colleagues’ rulings on voting rights, campaign finance and partisan gerrymandering have weakened American democracy and deepened political polarization. She spoke at Catholic University’s law school in Washington, two weeks before the midterm elections. Her remarks put a familiar dispute in unusually direct terms: when courts … Read more

How Redistricting Works: Maps, Gerrymandering, and the 2026 Fights

electoral map of 2026

How Redistricting Works Every 10 years, the United States carries out a census, an official count of everyone living in the country. The most recent census was in 2020, and the next is scheduled for 2030. The population numbers from the census trigger a process called reapportionment, in which the 435 seats in the U.S. … Read more

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