Redistricting commissions have been subject to numerous legal battles in states across the country | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

WASHINGTON — After one of the most litigious rounds of redistricting in recent history, movements have popped up in at least five states to take the power to draw legislative and congressional maps away from legislators and put it in the hands of commissioners. The task of redistricting, done every 10 years after the U.S. Census…