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Abortion ruling puts spotlight on gerrymandered legislatures

FILE - Wisconsin Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer addresses reporters and abortions rights supporters at a news conference in the state Capitol on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's legislative chambers had one of the nation's strongest Republican advantages during the past decade and are projected to continue to do so under new districts in place for the 2022 elections, according to an analysis by PlanScore, a nonprofit that uses election data to rate the partisan tilt of legislative districts. "Democracy is distorted in Wisconsin because of these maps,” Neubauer says. (AP Photo/Harm Venhuizen, File)

FILE - Richard Weiss studies a new map being talked about during the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission meeting at Cadillac Place in Detroit, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. In overturning a half-century of nationwide legal protection for abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Roe v. Wade had been wrongly decided and that it was time to “return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives” in the states. But some question whether gerrymandering has diminished the ability of state legislatures to truly represent the people's will. (Eric Seals/Detroit Free Press via AP, File)

Abortion ruling puts spotlight on gerrymandered legislatures