Texas kicked it all off, but now lots of states are considering a mid-decade redistricting, potentially leading to a war of all against all for partisan advantage. Is this stuff legal? Constitutional? What could each side realistically hope to achieve? What does this looks like when the dust settles? To help explain this, Seth and John invited Eric McGhee of the Public Policy Institute of California to join the show. Eric is one of the nation’s experts on redistricting, and his formulation of the “efficiency gap” to measure gerrymandering has been used in Supreme Court cases.

Links:

* Lee Drutman, “What the Apportionment Act of 1842 tells us about today’s gerrymandering wars”

* Seth Masket, “The Texas redistricting. No, the other one.”

* Rucho v. Common Cause (2018)

* Kyle Kondik, “How the Redistricting Fight Could Change the Bias in the House”

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