Count this as a success for the voter suppression group. They have delayed long enough that a fix for 2018 will likely not be possible
I wish the lower court could impose sanctions. Or a criminal referral.
Once again, the Roberts court uses “standing” to preserve the corrupt status quo for one more election cycle.
But now in another case they’ve upheld Texas’s districts that lower courts found were racially discriminatory. So the damage is done.
Getting tired of repeating it, but: except for publicity purposes, Dems can forget about gerrymandering reform as far this GOP Supreme Court is concerned. Even if the legislators drew up the maps at the local KKK meeting, the Supreme Court would uphold it. Supreme Court is Plan C.
Plan A: focus on a much more achievable goals: winning back state government control in November and most crucially in 2020; and themselves gerrymandering the GOP into oblivion. Only then might a GOP-controlled Supreme Court be prompted to do something about it.
Plan B: win back control of state Supreme Courts and attack gerrymandering under state law. That is not as good as Plan A, because as the Pennsylvania decision shows, the resulting map is still likely to slightly favor the GOP.
Vote locally, vote hard, gerrymander the fuckers into the dust and force them to come begging for reform. It’s the only way. Exemplary nonpartisan redistricting by blue states does nothing except tilt the playing field in favor the GOP. States like NY and CA should take the lead here.