Redistricting: Science, Art, and Skullduggery

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy are joined by attorneys and redistricting experts Benjamin Ginsberg and Michael Li, former CA Assemblymember Gloria Molina, and USC Professor Christian Grose to examine the challenges of redistricting across the country and its implications for the 2022 midterm elections.

Featuring:

Robert Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Mike Murphy- Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; MSNBC Political Analyst
Benjamin Ginsberg - Election Lawyer; Former National Counsel for Bush-Cheney Presidential Campaigns
Christian Grose - Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy, USC Dornsife & Sol Price School of Public Policy
Michael Li - Senior Counsel for Democracy Program, NYU Brennan Center for Justice
Gloria Molina - Fall '21 Fellow, Center for the Political Future; Former CA Assemblywoman; LA County Supervisor

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we
0:21.5	respect each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:28.6	Welcome to this edition of the bully pulpit. Today we're focused on redistricting, the science,
0:36.0	the art, and the skullduggery.
0:38.3	I'm Bob Shrum, the Warsaw Professor and Director of the Center for the Political Future at USC.
0:44.3	I'm here with our co-director, Mike Murphy, and together we'll leave this discussion.
0:49.3	We will leave 15 minutes, the last 15 minutes of the hour, for Q&A from our audience.
0:55.6	Put your questions in the chat.
0:58.2	Let me start by introducing our guests.
1:01.0	Ben Ginsburg served as National Council to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns in 2004.
1:09.7	In 2012 and 2008, he served as National Council for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
1:16.2	He's one of the great election law lawyers in America.
1:20.2	Christian Gross is an associate professor of political science and public policy at USC,
1:25.6	an academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.
1:31.5	He's an expert on political reforms and voting rights, including independent redistricting commissions.
1:39.3	He has also been conducting research about how best to improve voter access and voting rights
1:47.9	based around community-engaged work.
1:51.7	Michael Lee serves as Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center at NYU's Democracy Program,
1:58.2	where his work focuses on redistricting, voting rights, and elections.
2:03.0	He is the author of a widely cited blog on Texas redistricting and election law issues that
2:08.8	the New York Times calls indispensable. I'm happy to welcome him today since I was once on the
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