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[https://newrepublic.com/article/154424/beat-gerrymander-think-outside-lines The New Republic 6/08/2019] | [https://newrepublic.com/article/154424/beat-gerrymander-think-outside-lines The New Republic 6/08/2019] | ||
Voters in North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maryland deserve fair maps that don’t lock in a partisan advantage for either Republicans or Democrats. Federal courts nationwide had recently begun to insist on that, repeatedly declaring districts tainted with extreme partisan intent unconstitutional. | Voters in North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maryland deserve fair maps that don’t lock in a partisan advantage for either Republicans or Democrats. Federal courts nationwide had recently begun to insist on that, repeatedly declaring districts tainted with extreme partisan intent unconstitutional. | ||
The Supreme Court put an end to that dream last week. Its 5–4 ruling in Rucho v. Common Cause closed the federal courts to anyone seeking review of this undemocratic practice, despite those bipartisan panels of judges who repeatedly found they had all the tools and standards they needed to evaluate when district lines egregiously favored one side over the other. | |||
=====Democrats Can’t Be Afraid to Gerrymander Now===== | =====Democrats Can’t Be Afraid to Gerrymander Now===== | ||
