The Supreme Court’s Ruling on ‘Racially Gerrymandered’ Districts

John Hirschauer

Making the click-through worthwhile: The Supreme Court rules against Virginia’s state legislature (and Elbridge Gerry is slandered again!), President Trump weighs his options in the wake of Iranian malfeasance, and I attempt (and fail) to find one redeeming quality in O. J. Simpson’s decision to join Twitter.

Supreme Court Strikes down Virginia’s ‘Racially Gerrymandered’ Districts

Gerrymandering is a practice with a lengthy bipartisan history, though you’d never know it from the relentless messaging of Democratic operatives and the press corps. Dan McLaughlin’s 2017 piece here at NR on gerrymandering is worth a read, if only for the evidence that it provides of the unremarkable electoral impact of Republican redistricting efforts and the selective amnesia of Democrats who “dominated the House of Representatives for four uninterrupted decades from 1954 to 1994, and . . . did so with the considerable help of partisan gerrymanders.”

With that as context, the Supreme Court reached a decision yesterday in ... Read More

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