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Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering will wind back progress on racial justice

By Andrea Loux Jarman, Senior Lecturer in Law, Bournemouth University

In advance of the midterm elections, US states have been engaged in what US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has called, a “race to bottom” with an exercise known as “gerrymandering”.

What a gerrymander effectively does is move the boundaries of voting districts to concentrate groups of people who are likely to vote…

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