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1 Written Testimony of Nimrod Chapel, Jr. Missouri NAACP & Yurij Rudensky and Ethan Herenstein Brennan Center for Justice on SJR 38, Missouri House of Representatives General Laws Committee [1] (2020)

handle is hein.brennan/cbjnchp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BRENNAN CENTER FOR USTICE Written Testimony of: Nimrod Chapel, Jr. Missouri NAACP & Yurij Rudensky & Ethan Herenstein Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law on SJR 38 Missouri House of Representatives General Laws Committee April 30, 2020 The Missouri NAACP and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law' oppose Senate Joint Resolution 38. The Missouri State Conference of the NAACP is a grassroots organization dedicated to the mission of ensuring the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The Brennan Center is a non-partisan law and policy institute that works to improve our nation's systems of democracy and justice. Redistricting reform has long been an integral part of this mission. Over the years, we have partnered with Republican and Democratic lawmakers and grassroots advocates to promote independent, community-driven, and transparent redistricting. We offer this testimony to highlight the fundamental flaws in SJR 38 and strongly urge the legislature to vote no on the resolution. In 2018, Missourians overwhelmingly voted for redistricting reform. Amendment 1 passed with 62 percent of the vote, winning in every state senate district, 149 of 163 state house districts, and 80 of Missouri's 114 counties (plus the City of St. Louis), including a majority of heavily Republican counties. It was a landslide, grassroots, bipartisan victory for fair representation. 1 The views expressed in this testimony are made on behalf of the Brennan Center for Justice and not New York University School of Law.

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