The Supreme Court's gerrymaxxing

最高法院的选区最大化

Today, Explained

2026-05-05

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States are already making changes to their election maps after the Supreme Court decided to unleash a new era of partisan gerrymandering. And just in time for the midterms! This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto and Kelli Wessinger, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Activists protesting gerrymandering outside the Supreme Court. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • By now, you've surely heard that the Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.

  • Vox's Supreme Correspondent Ian Millhiser says there's two ways of looking at this decision from our highest court.

  • The more cynical answer is just that this is the most conservative Supreme Court we have had since at least the 1930s.

  • It is also the most partisan court that we've had ever.

  • And like the makeup of the justices matters here.

  • We have six justices now who just disagree with the Voting Rights Act.

  • And less cynical, Ian, the slightly less cynical answer here is that the Republican justices view is that I mean,

  • there 's there 's not nothing to this view.

  • Is that America is less racist in 2026 than it was in 1965.

  • Either way, the states are already gerrymandering in response.

  • And just six months before our midterm elections, the Supreme Court's gerrymaxing on Today Explained.

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