Gerrymandering is A process of deciding districts not THE process. BTaiM, it is hard to see the Court rule in a fashion will entangle it in an infinity of cases wherein the Court has to decide what was partisan and what was not.
It would put and end to ridiculous districts like the one which inflicts Looie the Red from Chicago on the Nation.
I am, in my wiser phase of life, placing more value to the belief that there shouldn’t be political parties.
Nothing in the Constitution states there must be political parties. The Framers warned against parties.
Districts should be drawn so that, within the limits of a State’s own boundaries of course, they have the shortest boundary line length to enclose the correct number of persons.
This will not create regular shapes like squares or hexagons simply because of geography and population distribution; but, the lumpish things that result will be much better than this crap.
Good luck A-holes.
Redistricting is a fact of life, even when the side you are on is disadvantaged...
Democrats still seem to feel as if they got a raw deal after the last census. Had they benefitted in any way, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t be talking about this. This is all about them, not democracy.
This practice is under scrutiny by just about everybody...continuously. It is supposed to happen every ten years, but in between there is constant plotting, sceaming, planning, maneuvering, churning, lying, and manipulating by all interested parties. Ultimately, the courts decide what is going to happen...because the one’s getting screwed always sue. Been going on as long as there have been elections.
I know of no districts that were carved out to preserve a white majority. Not to say they don’t exist, just that I am not aware of any currently.
But I do know of several contorted districts that were carved out to create oxymoronically-named ‘majority minority’ districts.
The left had better be extremely careful what they wish for.
Illinois is the worst. And Iowa is very good. With Wyoming being the best of course. Illinois congressman Luis Gutierrez has among the worst districts in the country. A big horseshoe shaped area that gets as thin as half a block in some areas. Its designed to have his residence as well as three Hispanic neighborhoods which are on different parts of the city. The district does its best to exclude black areas because they would vote for a black congressman and they don’t want to fight. Chicago votes over 70% democrat but still manages to blame republicans for their problems.