The Shocking Arrogance Behind One Of America’s Worst Gerrymanders

Last Friday, attorneys representing a handful of North Carolina voters, along with the state Democratic Party and the group Common Cause, filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional districts. The allegations laid out in this lawsuit suggest that Republican lawmakers drew the state’s current maps without any fear that they could be held accountable for attempting to rig most of the state’s House races for the GOP.

Indeed, these lawmakers had good reason not to fear any consequences for their actions. The Supreme Court has thus-far refused to step in to prevent even the most aggressive partisan gerrymanders. Common Cause v. Rucho, the case filed on Friday, is a test of whether the justices can be convinced to make an exception to this practice when confronted with both an extraordinary gerrymander and extraordinary arrogance on the part of the lawmakers behind it....
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