Policy Backgrounders

Updates on Gerrymandering

March 17, 2023

In May 2022, CED released a Policy Brief, Gerrymandering Update: Focus on the Courts, which discussed several redistricting cases following the 2021 release of the Census Bureau’s reapportionment data. After state legislatures drew their maps, attention shifted to courts to determine the constitutionality of maps for both Federal and state elections. Almost a year later, even after the 2022 Congressional elections, several important cases remain undecided, including two before the US Supreme Court.