Will the Supreme Court End Partisan Gerrymandering?

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court heard two partisan gerrymandering cases—one from North Carolina and another from Maryland—this week: Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause. Examining those cases and how the Court might rule, host Jeffrey Rosen sits down with Nick Stephanopoulos, one of the attorneys in the North Carolina case and a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation. These scholars debate whether or not the Supreme Court should be involved in examining partisan gerrymandering claims, and discuss what the Constitution says about gerrymandering. For more information and resources, visit constitutioncenter.org/podcasts. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and welcome to
0:08.7	We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.4	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan
0:14.9	nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of
0:19.8	the Constitution among the American people.
0:23.0	And today we focus on one of the most hotly contested
0:26.1	constitutional questions of this Supreme Court term
0:29.3	and of American politics, and that is the Constitution and partisan gerrymandering.
0:35.4	The Supreme Court heard two partisan gerrymandering cases this week.
0:41.2	Lamone and Benesek from Maryland and Rucho against Common Cause,
0:46.0	coming from North Carolina, and we'll examine those cases what the constitutional
0:50.0	debates are, how the court might rule and what the future is for the nature of
0:55.0	American politics and helping us to understand this crucial question are two of
0:59.5	America's leading experts on gerrymandering and election law as well as returning
1:05.2	champions here on the We The People Podcast. Nick Stephanopoulos is professor of law
1:10.4	and Herbert and Marjorie Freed research scholar at the University of Chicago. of a league of women voters in Rucho against Common Cause, one of the gerrymandering cases argued
1:25.9	at the court this week.
1:27.1	Nick, thank you so much for joining.
1:29.5	My pleasure.
1:30.5	Thanks for having me.
1:31.5	And Hans von Spikovsky is manager of the election law. Thanks for
1:35.0	Hans Van Spikovsky is manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative
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