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Heather Gerken

Heather K. Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School

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A user’s guide to progressive federalism.

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The challenge, on a fast track to the Supreme Court, relies on a new tool to measure the unfair drawing of districts.

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