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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    A plea from Michigan’s highest court to the Supreme Court about partisan gerrymandering

    Federal judges in Michigan ruled against Republican-engineered gerrymandering, and they made a passionate plea to the Supreme Court to ban at least some forms of the practice.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Apr 29, 2019 • 1 min read

    Federal judges in Michigan ruled against Republican-engineered gerrymandering, and they made a passionate plea to the Supreme Court to ban at least some forms of the practice. The Supreme Court is currently looking at two gerrymandering cases out of Maryland and North Carolina.

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    3 of 5
    How synagogues are implementing new security measures
    1. 0:00After shooting at Chabad of Poway, how are synagogues implementing new security measures?
    2. 9:58What’s behind the spike of religious hate crimes?
    3. 16:41A plea from Michigan’s highest court to the Supreme Court about partisan gerrymanderingYou’re reading this
    4. 24:40Independent contractor or employee? How California’s new classification rules affect you
    5. 40:34New music: Minyo Crusaders, Ana Roxanne, and more
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