Gerrymandering Explained
A Brennan Center explainer describes how gerrymandering works — through cracking, packing, and increasingly precise computer-aided map drawing — and argues it is getting worse now that the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling put partisan gerrymanders beyond federal courts' reach. It recounts Texas's 2025 mid-decade redraw sparking a nationwide redistricting war, with California, Virginia, and Florida responding, and North Carolina's flipped districts helping hand the GOP a slim House majority.
