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Gerrymandering: A Guide to Congressional Redistricting, Dark Money, and the U.S. Supreme Court - Couverture souple

Franklin L. Kury

 
9780761870258: Gerrymandering: A Guide to Congressional Redistricting, Dark Money, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Synopsis

Gerrymandering! A Guide to Congressional Redistricting, Dark Money and the Supreme Court lays out the importance of legislative representation to the foundations of the United States government, takes readers through a case study of a redistricting effort in Pennsylvania, and reviews legislative redistricting in American history and the Supreme Court’s role throughout.
This book analyzes how gerrymandering has evolved, and the effect of hardball politics of state legislatures and minimal campaign expenditure disclosures have sustained the practice. Opponents of gerrymandering face the daunting legal challenge of convincing the Supreme Court to adopt a new national standard for determining when gerrymandering has passed the bound of constitutionality.
Following the text is a Citizen’s Toolbox with which readers throughout the country can evaluate the redistricting situation in their states. The Toolbox is replete with useful information gerrymandering.

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À propos de l'auteur

Franklin L. Kury served six years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and eight in the Pennsylvania Senate. He practiced law with Reed Smith, a major law firm, and then worked as a lobbyist with Malady and Wooten in Harrisburg, before retiring. This is his third book on legislatures and politics.

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