claim: "it's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."
author: will weatherford
evidence_1: oct 23, 2018 ... it's the same old michigan you left," a high school friend commented. ... none of  these measures has even been proposed by michigan's legislature, however. ...  just enough republican voters into a large number of districts in order to .... " people's first loyalty was where it should be, to the state of michigan." ...
evidence_2: aug 28, 2018 ... why north carolina might have to redraw its gerrymandered map ... the ruling  isn't a surprise, as the court reached the same decision in january. ... in a brazen  move, republican legislators passed a plan that left the rejected districts ... the  first time ever, a federal court ruled that partisan gerrymandering ...
evidence_3: jul 10, 2017 ... with right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's ... one can  drive across it and be in two different states at the same time: fm texas and am  texas. ... texas has been growing at a stupefying rate for decades. ... because  texas represents so much of modern america—the south, the ...
evidence_4: luxembourg · malta · mexico1. netherlands2. new zealand3. norway · portugal ·  south africa .... national support rose to 60% for the first time in 2015 and has not  gone .... that aimed at reversing a court ruling establishing same-sex marriage  there. ... legislative proposals that would have banned or established same-sex ...
evidence_5: feb 19, 2018 ... democrats couldn't have asked for much more from the new map. ... a decision to  pursue partisan balance in pennsylvania would be particularly ... seventh district  might have been the most gerrymandered district in the nation. now not ... the  old 15th district wasn't as easily caricatured as the old seventh.