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IVN Readers React: Seriously, This Is Legal?
Should lawmakers be allowed to draw electoral districts to protect their party from competition? Can the courts rule legislative and congressional maps unconstitutional on the basis of partisan and po...
Elect Independents If You Want A New Approach to the Gun Debate
Where do we even begin after Las Vegas? The shooting was so calculatingly evil, so tragic for the victims, and so sad for our nation. And yet we have been here before: after Sandy Hook, after the Orla...
Ending Gerrymandering: SCOTUS Victory Would Be Huge; Election Reform is Key
On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments for Gill v. Whitford, a constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s state legislative districts.The interest in the case was evident by the line ...
Voting Rights At Stake in Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Update October 3, 2017: The full transcript has been released for the oral argument in Gill v. Whitford. Check out the transcript below. The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Gill v. W...
Why the Mission Valley Stadium Site is So Tricky
Lost is all the discussion of the Mission Valley Stadium site is the question of what to do with the stadium?The Soccer City plan includes a new 36,000 seat soccer stadium. SDSU is announcing plans fo...
Wisconsin Files Final Brief in Groundbreaking Partisan Gerrymandering Case
On September 19, the state of Wisconsin filed its reply brief in Gill v. Whitford, 16-1161, the case over whether extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the U.S. Constitution. The hearing ...
One Thing We Can All Agree On: Gerrymandering Sucks
Everybody hates gerrymandering. That’s the takeaway from a new poll that finds dramatic majorities of Americans in favor of limiting the ability of politicians and partisans to draw their own district...
The Neo-Independent: The Questions are Blowin’ in the Wind
Crazy times in America these days. The wrathful hurricanes pounding the South and the East Coast and the wildfires devouring the Northwest echo our storm-tossed politics.Everything is turned ups...
McCain, Whitehouse to SCOTUS: Partisan Gerrymandering Wastes Votes and Silences Voices
US Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are joining the legal fight against partisan gerrymandering.McCain and Whitehouse filed a joint amicus brief to the Supreme Court in t...
Confessions of American Anarchism
Remorse of a Troubled YouthIn 1971, at 19, William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook. The book has been found at bombings, and school shootings, ever since.It is hard to believe that the author of t...