In major elections ruling, Supreme Court allows partisan gerrymandering via ReutersTV
WASHINGTON - In a major blow to election reformers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected efforts to rein in electoral map manipulation by politicians aimed at entrenching one party in power, a practice known as partisan gerrymandering that critics have said warps democracy.
Though both parties have engaged in partisan gerrymandering, President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans have been the primary beneficiaries since the last round of redistricting following the 2010 census. Gerrymandering, a practice dating back two centuries in the United States, is carried out by configuring electoral maps in a way that crams as many like-minded voters as possible into a small number of districts and spreading the rest in other districts too thinly to form a majority. These districts sometimes take on exotic shapes to include certain areas and exclude others.
The ruling came on the final day of the court’s term. The justices also blocked, at least for now, the Trump administration’s contentious plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Republicans were open about their intent. “I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,” state House Representative David Lewis said at the time.
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