Pivotal Moment for Democrats? Gerrymandering Heads to Supreme Court
The hand-to-hand political combat in House elections on Tuesday in Georgia and last week in Kansas had the feel of the first rounds of an epic battle next year for control of the House of Representatives and the direction of national politics as the Trump presidency unfolds.
But for all the zeal on the ground, none of it may matter as much as a case heading to the Supreme Court, one that could transform political maps from City Hall to Congress — often to Democrats’ benefit.
A bipartisan group of voting rights advocates says the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature, the State Assembly, was gerrymandered by its Republican majority before the 2012 election — so artfully, in fact, that Democrats won a third fewer Assembly seats than Republicans despite prevailing in the popular vote. In November, in a 2-to-1 ruling, a panel of federal judges agreed.
Now the Wisconsin case is headed to a Supreme Court that has repeatedly said that extreme partisan gerrymanders are unconstitutional, but has never found a way to decide which ones cross the line.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/democrats-gerrymander-supreme-court.html?smid=tw-share
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He would have definitely voted against gerrymandering. Gorsuch is a sure vote for it. God damn them. 
Agree.
I feel a huge set back for Dems and Democracy coming unfortunately from the highest court in the land.
Gorsuck's is a Koch Brothers & Federalist TOOL. As we know, he dissented in favor of a company who wanted a trucker to stay in the cabin of his truck and continue dying--don't go looking for help because he was literally freezing to death. He left that truck, and the company unjustly fired him. He bought a lawsuit against them, and luckily the trucker benefited from a rational ruling in his favor by justices who weren't anti-people, heartless, evil and who had common sense (And who weren't racist) like Gorsuck's.
With the first ruling from his stolen Supreme Court seat, he Gorsuck's ruled in favor of the state of AK, because they want to execute death row inmates as fast as Ford could run Model T's off their assembly line.
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UPDATE November 21, 2016: WE WIN! The Court declared the Wisconsin legislative district map unconstitutional. You can see the order in the Documents section and our press release in the Newsroom section!
Note: The case name changed from "Whitford v Nichol" to "Whitford v Gill" when the leadership of the state's election authority transferred earlier in 2016.
Earlier update: The federal three-judge panel in Wisconsin's Western District ruled unanimously -- twice -- in Whitford v Nichol to continue the case to trial, denying the state's motions for dismissal and summary judgement and preventing the defendants from short-circuiting the case. This is the first partisan gerrymandering case to survive a motion to dismiss in almost 30 years, and the trial began on Tuesday, May 24. Visit facebook.com/wifairelections and twitter.com/wifairelections for updates in real time.
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"Wisconsin is the most extreme partisan gerrymander in the United States in the post-2010 cycle," said attorney Gerry Hebert, who's the executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center. "It's about as far out from what you would consider to be fair as you can imagine." (Wisconsin Public Radio, May 24, 2016)
