This piece in Urban Milwaukee discusses the anti-competitive gerrymandering claim that has been filed against Wisconsin’s congressional districts (by a team of lawyers of whom some are at HLS’s Election Law Clinic). The piece nicely illustrates how much more competitive Wisconsin’s districts could be under a different district map.

[The plaintiffs] argue that anti‐competitive gerrymandering is distinct from partisan gerrymandering, which draws district lines to pack members of the disfavored party into a small number of districts, thus unfairly boosting the number of seats won by the favored party. Anti‐competitive gerrymandering is also distinct from racial gerrymandering. . . .

The next graph, drawn using DRA, maps today’s Congressional districts. Districts 2 and 4 are heavily Demo

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