Communication 09 How To draw Redistricting Plans That Will Stand Up In Court

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I.Introduction The purpose of this paper is to acquaint you with the major fede way you draw your legislative and congressional redistricting pl you may learn how to draw redistricting plans that will stand up Before I get into the cases, Id like to clarify some terms I wi redistricting process works. A.Reapportionment and Redistricting Reapportionment is the process of reassigning a given number o to established districts, usually in accordance with an establis boundaries of the districts do not change, but the number of mem Redistricting is the process of changing the district boundari per district does not change, but the districts boundaries do. The relationship between reapportionment and redistricting can m examining the U.S. House of Representatives. Every ten years th Representatives are reapportioned among the 50 states in accorda As the population of some states grows faster than that of other slow-growing states to the fast-growing ones. Then, within each than one representative, the boundaries of the congressional dis populations equal. The state is redistricted to accommodate its Reapportionment, in the narrow sense in which I will be using it political process. It is a mathematical one. The decennial reap Representatives is carried out in accordance with a statutory fo proportions, established in 1941. 2 U.S.C. Sections 2a and 2b. It is not subject to partisan manipulation, except in determining who gets counted in the cens use this particular formula, rather than another, has been uphel Dept. of Commerce v. Montana,503 U.S. 442 (1992). Redistricting, on the other hand, is highly partisan. This is b boundaries, the drafter has such wide discretion in deciding whe drafting can give one party a significant advantage in elections B.Why Redistrict? 1.Reapportionment of Congressional Seats Why do we redistrict? The first reason is because of population congressional seats to move from state to state. 1