Supreme Court ponders limits to gerrymandering.
in a lawsuit say its impacts are unambiguously personal -- and unconstitutional.
An aerial view of the part of North Carolina A&T University that is divided by the boundary line between Congressional Districts 6 and 13 in Greensboro, N.C., March 13, 2019. Chief Justice John Roberts poses for the official group photo at the US Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2018. Republicans who brought the Maryland case say a Democratic-led redrawing of one long-reliably GOP congressional district -- turning it in favor of Democrats -- violated their First Amendment right to association by diluting their votes and depressing participation in the political process.
Lawmakers who draft district boundaries for electoral advantage typically try to "pack" like-minded voters into concentrated districts and "crack" other pockets of like-minded voters into separate districts to minimize influence in the voting pool. North Carolina argues that there is no constitutional rule against gerrymandering and weak evidence that individual voters are harmed by it.
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