MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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The Supreme Court just made it easier to get away with gerrymandering
By artappraiser on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 1:01pm |If you can’t fix the problem quickly, it’s not fixed.
By Ian Millhiser, @ ThinkProgress.org, June 5
The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Monday affirming a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s state legislative maps were an illegal racial gerrymander.
That sounds like good news for advocates who oppose the maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature — but the decision could actually encourage state lawmakers to attempt more gerrymandered maps in the future.
That’s because the most lasting effect of the Court’s decision in North Carolina v. Covington is likely to stem from a brief opinion vacating a lower court order that called for an unusual remedy to fix this gerrymander [....]
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https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-easier-gerrymandering-e6c986056e62
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