Don’t let the census case fool you.
The Supreme Court handed down two opinions on Thursday which could shape American democracy for decades.
The first, Rucho v. Common Cause, held that suits challenging partisan gerrymanders are entirely beyond the power of the federal courts to adjudicate. Henceforth, state lawmakers may draw the most aggressively partisan gerrymanders they (and their computers) can come up with. They may draw, as Wisconsin did, a gerrymander so impervious to democracythat Republicans win nearly two-thirds of the state assembly seats even in an election where they won 54% of the popular vote.
And the entire federal bench must sit on its hands and allow this to happen.
View the complete June 27 article by Ian Millhiser on the ThinkProgress website here.