Partisan Gerrymandering Thwarts Democracy

Erwin Chemerinsky, Esq.

January 2025

Dean Chemerinsky argues that partisan gerrymandering — where the political party holding power draws election districts so as to create as many as possible with a majority of likely voters from that party — rigs elections and undermines democracy. He criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court for refusing to intervene by holding that cases challenging partisan gerrymandering raise “political questions that cannot be decided by the courts.”