Supreme Court punts partisan gerrymandering case
The Supreme Court on Monday punted the issue of partisan gerrymandering for a second time this month.
The court told a lower court to reconsider its decision to strike down Republican-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina in light of its recent rulings in two other cases.
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina found that Republicans had redrawn two congressional districts to favor their party after their first maps were struck down by the court as racial gerrymanders.
Republican officials didn’t dispute they had drawn the maps with the intent to favor Republicans, but intent to give one party a leg up, they argued, isn’t enough to prove an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander occurred.
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/393926-supreme-court-punts-issue-of-partisan-gerrymandering?userid=229233
