What Democrats and Republicans Agree On: Gerrymandering the Courts
Political partisanship is playing out across the country as lawmakers move to change how their states’ supreme courts are elected.
June 14, 2021 •
The Illinois Supreme Court. (Photo: 2Civility.org) Last Monday, Republicans in the Louisiana House tried to pass a proposed constitutional amendment to redraw election districts for the state Supreme Court, while adding two seats to it. The effort came up short, but it was just the latest move by a state legislature to try to change how high court justices are elected. Just three days earlier, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed a bill that redraws election districts for his state’s Supreme Court, a move observers believe is aimed at maintaining his party’s 4-3 majority in next year s elections. And Republicans in Montana and Pennsylvania passed bills in the past year to create districts for their high courts, b
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