Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
As of Dec. 17, 2020, over 66 million Americans have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After lengthy negotiations and a partisan stalemate, Congress passed the second $900 billion comprehensive pandemic relief bill in late December providing much-needed relief to struggling Americans for the first time since March. Meanwhile, 34% of […]
High-profile Supreme Court decisions and the stakes of the 2021 decennial redistricting processes elevated partisan redistricting into the national spotlight in 2020. The partisan gerrymandering debate focuses on the constitutional context and judicial precedent deciding which entities are responsible for drawing district lines. When the courts punt responsibility back to state legislatures, political strategists focus […]