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Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

The Uncertain Future of the Voting Rights Act: Vanderbilt Law School Speakers Discuss Redistricting Since Baker v. Carr and Merrill v. Milligan

The Uncertain Future of the Voting Rights Act: Vanderbilt Law School Speakers Discuss Redistricting Since Baker v. Carr and Merrill v. Milligan

Alex Mormorunni, Contributor April 21, 2023

Earlier this semester, Vanderbilt Law School hosted two lawyers, Junaid Odubeko and Scott Tift, to discuss what Odubeko described as “pure politics at its best, or worst” – redistricting. Odubeko...

Congressional Redistricting for the 2020s: How Tennessee Voters Feel

Congressional Redistricting for the 2020s: How Tennessee Voters Feel

Rohan Upadhyay, Contributor January 9, 2022

The start of 2022 marks a checkpoint in the political cycle, with deadlines approaching for states to redraw their congressional districts following the updated population figures of the 2020 census released...

Redistricting in Music City: Tennessee Democrats May No Longer Have Two to Tango

Redistricting in Music City: Tennessee Democrats May No Longer Have Two to Tango

Max McCall, Contributor November 8, 2021

Starting next year, Nashville may do something it has not done in well over a century: elect a Republican to Congress.  This is not because the politics of the strongly Democratic-leaning city will...

Supreme Court May Soon Decide to Restrict Partisan Gerrymandering

Supreme Court May Soon Decide to Restrict Partisan Gerrymandering

Aditya Gokhale January 8, 2018

As our political landscape currently stands, gerrymandering continues to be a major roadblock to fair representation in our democracy. This process of partisan redistricting is apparent in many states,...

The Ridiculousness of Gerrymandering

Brooks Cain October 25, 2013

Take a look at this picture: This may look like a Rorschach test that a sadistic psychologist might give, but it is actually North Carolina’s 12th district, and it is an example of what is wrong...

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