G. K. Butterfield: “Congress also has the power and the authority through Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to guarantee equal protection…”

Unfortunately, the High Court decided that political gerrymandering is not protected by the Federal Constitution.

Just because you have high turnout doesn't mean that bad laws aren't barriers to voting.

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.