Opinion: A court just dealt a blow to rigged elections. It probably won’t last.
Protesters opposing gerrymandering outside the U.S. Supreme Court. By Paul Waldman and Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow May 3 at 3:36 PM Opponents of gerrymandering — i.e., Democrats — just secured an important victory in a federal appeals court, when a three-judge panel ruled that Ohio’s congressional maps are an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
The Republicans who gerrymandered in Ohio after the 2010 Census were very successful. This swing state’s congressional delegation includes 12 Republicans and just four Democrats. In the 2018 elections, the Republican candidates got 52 percent of the statewide two-party vote for House and the Democrats got 48 percent, but Republicans held 75 percent of the seats.The Supreme Court has never ruled partisan gerrrymandering unconstitutional.
But this decision will ultimately be appealed to the Supreme Court -- and with the other cases also being heard, there’s little reason to think this will be upheld. But as election scholar Rick Hasen has noted, it’s not clear how long those commissions will be allowed to stand.
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