Drawing Us Out
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
16-5-2019
End Date
16-5-2019
Abstract
Gerrymandering is the act of changing the lines of political districts in order to give one political party a partisan advantage, a practice generally frowned upon. In Lamone v. Benisek, the Maryland-based plaintiff alleges that the political district in which they resided was gerrymandered in retaliation for their political views. Under the First Amendment, a person’s choice to vote is protected free speech. The Supreme Court must decide the question of whether this instance of gerrymandering violates the First Amendment. There are currently no amendments in the United States Constitution that prohibit gerrymandering. I will be discussing whether the act was legal and if the plaintiff’s rights were violated. Furthermore, I will examine in detail the disadvantages faced by communities when their geopolitical boundaries are unjustly altered.
Winner, Outstanding Oral Presentation, College of the Sciences.
Recommended Citation
Hopson, Christianna, "Drawing Us Out" (2019). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 197.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2019/Oralpres/197
Department/Program
Law and Justice
Drawing Us Out
Ellensburg
Gerrymandering is the act of changing the lines of political districts in order to give one political party a partisan advantage, a practice generally frowned upon. In Lamone v. Benisek, the Maryland-based plaintiff alleges that the political district in which they resided was gerrymandered in retaliation for their political views. Under the First Amendment, a person’s choice to vote is protected free speech. The Supreme Court must decide the question of whether this instance of gerrymandering violates the First Amendment. There are currently no amendments in the United States Constitution that prohibit gerrymandering. I will be discussing whether the act was legal and if the plaintiff’s rights were violated. Furthermore, I will examine in detail the disadvantages faced by communities when their geopolitical boundaries are unjustly altered.
Winner, Outstanding Oral Presentation, College of the Sciences.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2019/Oralpres/197
Faculty Mentor(s)
Teresa Divine