Voters across the country have enacted Independent Redistricting Commissions as a good government reform to take partisan gerrymandering (in which politicians select their own voters to create “safe” districts) out of the redistricting process, hoping that a nonpartisan commission would produce competitive districts so that voting actually matters. It was a good concept, but it hasn’t … Read more
What’s at stake in the 2020 election … the course of the next decade. The Arizona Mirror reports, 138 apply for redistricting commission, including some notable names: One hundred thirty-eight people applied to serve on the next Independent Redistricting Commission, which will determine the boundaries of Arizona’s congressional and legislative districts for the next decade. … Read more
Update to Scandal: Governor Ducey rigged the system to appoint Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court. The Arizona Daily Star’s Tim Steller addressed this scandal, and added an important point that I left out of my earlier post. Ducey degrades once-proud Arizona judicial institutions (excerpt): Last week Ducey completed his heist of Arizona’s judiciary … Read more