[Reverend Wright]

"Will this mean that we can take Maryland’s Congressional district map to court?"

how about Illinois ?

[Thud]

My father was a California Democratic Party apparachnik, and my godfather was Congressman Phil Burton of San Francisco, father of the modern political gerrymander. He taught me how to count votes.

Phil could do statewide gerrymandering in his head. When challenged about one of his plans being totally one-sided, he paused for a few minutes thinking about it, then replied, "Nah, we could have gotten another five seats if we wanted to."

His favorite was a district for his younger brother John that was contiguous only at low tide.