Jan 11, 2018
A panel of federal judges rejected a congressional district map in
North Carolina, calling it a partisan gerrymander. Never before has
a court overturned a Congressional districting plan on grounds of
partisanship. The panel ordered the state legislature to redraw the
map. Gerrymandering, a practice which manipulates district
boundaries for political gains, is a much-debated topic in the
political sphere. In this episode, Professors Julian Zelizer and
Sam Wang discuss what’s next for North Carolina and the practice of
gerrymandering in general.