Remap Debate Has Democrats Adopting Position of Convenience

By Stuart Rothenberg
Roll Call Contributing Writer
Oct. 30, 2003, 12 a.m.

When I was teaching political science at Bucknell University, redistricting was a regular topic in my classes. My standard comments on the matter included the assertion that state legislatures could redistrict whenever they wanted to since there was no prohibition against it.



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