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Wednesday, August 06, 2025

If the plaintiffs had prevailed, Texas Republicans wouldn't be trying to redraw the state's congressional districts to gain five more House seats in the 2026 election, and the leaders of Democratic states wouldn't be threatening to retaliate with gerrymandering of their own. Instead, the Supreme Court's majority punted. In June of 2019, the court declared by a 5-4 vote that partisan gerrymandering is a political question that federal courts have no legal grounds to resolve.

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More: Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that federal courts "are not equipped to apportion political power as a matter of fairness, nor is there any basis for concluding that they were authorized to do so."

In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan recognized that a crucial opportunity had been missed. She wrote: "Of all times to abandon the Court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court's role in that system is to defend its foundations. None is more important than free and fair elections. With respect but deep sadness, I dissent."

Bob Phillips, executive director at Common Cause North Carolina, said it was hard to push the argument against partisan gerrymandering to the top of the U.S. judicial system only to have it found to be "nonjusticiable."

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-06 08:59 AM | Reply

If SCOTUS hadn't failed NC, we wouldn't have this Texas mess

But they certainly didn't fail the GOP. Which is the only measure Trump's SCOTUS sees.

Jill Stein/Ralph Nader 2028!

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-06 10:18 AM | Reply

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