The Supreme Court on Tuesday will not have to debate whether a group of North Carolina politicians deliberately redrew election maps to give their party the maximum partisan advantage. The state’s Republican leaders admitted to doing exactly that.
North Carolina Republican state Sens. Dan Soucek, left, and Brent Jackson review historical maps at the state General Assembly in Raleigh on Feb. 16, 2016.
Led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the court’s conservatives are likely to decide redistricting is a matter left to elected officials, not federal judges.on redistricting by proposing to use the latest political data to benefit Republicans and “draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats because I do not believe it’s possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.
On Tuesday, the justices will hear appeals from the two states and consider whether gerrymandering — no matter how partisan and one-sided — can ever violate the Constitution and the rights of voters who believe they are cheated when politicians rig the outcomes. The cases areAnd the state lawyers are likely to find a friendly forum. Roberts is likely to seek to devise a procedural rule for throwing out the legal challenges to the congressional maps in North Carolina and Maryland.
With new Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh filling his seat, the chief justice may have a majority to rule that the power to redraw election districts is exclusively in the hands of state legislators.a 5-4 majority upheld independent commissions authorized by voters in Arizona
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