The Case Against Partisan Gerrymandering
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/the_case_against_partisan_gerrymandering.html
It is both durable and democratically subversive. It’s time for the Supreme Court to intervene.
Superficially, the question in Gill v. Whitford—the blockbuster case about partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin, to be heard next month by the Supreme Court—is a legal one. Is the test for gerrymandering adopted by the trial court “discernible,” or rooted in the high court’s precedent, and “manageable,” or consistent in the results it would produce? Lurking beneath this question, though, is a more fundamental debate about the nature of voting and representation in modern American politics. The position the Supreme Court takes in this debate will likely influence its decision more than any legal argument...
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