The Republican’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? They Claim Attorney-Client and Legislative Privilege

Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, The Republican’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? They Claim Attorney-Client and Legislative Privilege. Wednesday, 18 October 2023: “Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions…. Legal experts say the expanding use of privilege robs plaintiffs of key insights. To succeed in court, plaintiffs in many cases have to show legislators intended to discriminate. Without access, explained Harvard Law School professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos, it becomes ‘very difficult to prove intent even where it was actually present.'”