Gerrymanders are barriers to competitive, democratic elections. But the only thing worse than a gerrymander is a judge trying to fix one.

If voters are sick and tired of politicians choosing their constituents instead of us choosing them, it"s up to voters to fix the problem, not judges.

The flawed redistricting process in the United States allows representatives to choose their voters. The Public Mapping Project coming to Virginia could fix the problem.

Will the LULAC v. Perry decision open the door to a flood of middecade redistrictings? Probably not.

The pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act was essential in 1965.Now it is no longer necessary, and the racial and partisan ends for which it is used are not inour interest.

American law contains important messages about our basic values, and race-driven legislative maps (demanded by the Voting Rights Act, the court has long said) send the wrong message.

As practiced in recent decades,redistricting has done more damage than anything else to comity, bipartisanship, and moderation in Congress.

On March 1, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving the Texas congressional redistricting plan.