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The justices declared that they will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
By Robert Barnes @ WashingtonPost.com, 1 hr. ago
The Supreme Court declared Monday that it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
The justices regularly are called to invalidate state electoral maps that have been illegally drawn to reduce the influence of racial minorities by depressing the impact of their votes. But the Supreme Court has never found a plan unconstitutional because of partisan gerrymandering. If it does, it would have a revolutionary impact on the reapportionment that comes after the 2020 election and could come at the expense of Republicans, who control the process in the majority of states.
The court accepted a case from Wisconsin, where a divided panel of three federal judges last year ruled last year that the state’s Republican leadership in 2011 pushed through a plan so partisan that it violated the Constitution’s First Amendment and equal rights protections [....]
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Supreme Court to Hear Major Case on Partisan Districts
By ADAM LIPTAK @ NYTimes.com, 9:55 AM ET
The court announced that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering can violate the Constitution, a case that could reshape American politics.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/19/2017 - 11:44am
This decision could turn out to be the cruelest consequence of the Garland-Gorsuch atrocity.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 06/19/2017 - 12:04pm
It could and with a majority of Republican-appointed justices there is reason for fear. But, I have a measure of cautious optimism because Clarence Thomas joined the Democratic Justices earlier this year to reverse North Carolina's racist districting scheme.
by HSG on Mon, 06/19/2017 - 1:34pm
Arta's rule # 1 in voting for president: his/her ability to appoint Supreme Court justices trumps (no pun intended) every other issue he/she has power to affect, including war.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/19/2017 - 1:42pm
Case was a bi-partisan effort:
We led the Wisconsin Senate. Now we’re fighting gerrymandering in our state.
By Tim Cullen and Dale Schultz, guest op-ed @ WashingtonPost.com, June 20Tim Cullen is a former Democratic majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate. Dale Schultz is a former Republican majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate. They are co-chairs of the Fair Elections Project, which helped organize the Gill v. Whitford litigation.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 1:56am