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Partisan Gerrymandering Stands, for Now
Two decisions from the Supreme Court indicate that arguments against politically biased legislative maps still haven’t figured out how to get the attention of the justices.
What anti-gerrymandering activists across the country wanted was a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court, determining once and for all that political maps could be held unconstitutional for partisan bias, and dictating how. What those activists got, however, was a punt.
“The case is remanded to the District Court to give the plaintiffs an opportunity to prove concrete and particularized injuries,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion.
The decision in , one of the most hyped Supreme Court cases on the issue of gerrymandering
