I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People constitutional podcasts.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information

about the U.S. Constitution on a non-basis.

And today we're excited to discuss one of the most interesting constitutional issues to come up before the Supreme

Court and that is the question of the power of the legislature to redistrict.

Before I get into those constitutional arguments,

though, I want to share the exciting news

that today the National Constitution Center

announced that we are joining a really exciting new podcast distribution network

created by Slate magazine called Panoply. Basically, Slate has assembled 12 of the most highly performing podcasts in the country and we are thrilled

and honored to be among them.

Our new colleagues include podcasts produced by the New York Times magazine, by the Huffington Post,

and by W-B-U-R, and we are really delighted to be among them. So all that means is that you are great

listeners should be able to expect better audio quality. Our podcasts in the

future will no longer sound as if they're being recorded in a bathtub,

and we hope that we'll continue to provide the smart constitutional conversations that have

led you to be tuning in so far. All right, let me get right to it.

So we're examining this week an upcoming Supreme Court case

that could determine the future of legislative redistricting and movements to reform the redistricting process.

You know that there's a strong debate in this country about whether or not the way we draw legislative

lines has increased polarization and Arizona moved by those arguments in 2000

passed Proposition 106 which took congressional redistricting authority which had been previously vested in the Arizona State Legislature,

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