28.4.04
Pennsylvania Redistricting
Upheld by the Supreme Court, but the door was also left open to future legal challenges to gerrymandering. The predictable if disturbing graf:
Four court conservatives would have gone even further, by limiting future legal attacks on gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts to favor a political party.
Kennedy dissented with them on that point, but went along with them to allow the current gerrymandering to stand. In a case that held promise for its even being heard, a typically disgusting partisan split is the result. Ugh.
Four court conservatives would have gone even further, by limiting future legal attacks on gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts to favor a political party.
Kennedy dissented with them on that point, but went along with them to allow the current gerrymandering to stand. In a case that held promise for its even being heard, a typically disgusting partisan split is the result. Ugh.
Ed.- Check out the Pennsylvania districts maps here. Shame you can't see the whole state too well. -degs
perma-linky posted by jkd : 11:06
