Fran Korten

Fran Korten is a contributing editor for YES! Magazine, writing about opportunities to advance a progressive agenda in politics, economics, and the environment.

Partisan Gerrymandering May Soon Be Unconstitutional

Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on two cases, anti-gerrymandering action at the state level is well underway.

Fran Korten
Por Fran Korten
VoShannon Faulk, center, of San Antonio, Texas, wears a mask that says "silenced" while protesting with others outside of the Supreme Court in opposition to Ohio's voter roll purges, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)ter roll purges protest

Sometime before June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down rulings on two cases with momentous impacts on who controls power in state legislatures and the U.S. Congress. “These cases are likely to be the most important democracy cases in decades,” says Michael Li, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York

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