Posts Tagged ‘redistricting’
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Supreme Court Chumps
Posted on June 30, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) It took nine decades for Congress and the states to amend the Constitution to allow for the direct election of...
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Jim Wright: Leaving a Mark
Posted on May 7, 2015
Jim Wright left a mark. I came to Washington to work for House Republican Leader Bob Michel in September of 1989, about four months after the Texas Democrat stepped down...
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Gerry Returns
Posted on June 13, 2011
When Elbridge Gerry presided over Massachusetts as its governor in 1812, he signed into a law a redistricting plan that helped benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. One district was said to...
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