US Supreme Court to hear arguments in Maryland gerrymandering case this week

[smurfy]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/27/supreme-court-gerrymandering-487201

There are two gerrymandering cases currently before the Supreme Court: one about a GOP gerrymander in Wisconsin, and this one about a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland. They both use different legal theories so it's a two-pronged assault on gerrymandering.

[Saint Furrybutt]

Good

[Hilton]

If you think about it for a while, it's actually insane how little energy our politicians as a whole spends on helping their people compared to helping themselves.

[Borealis]

The last SCOTUS case about gerrymandering basically was "not unconsitutional because there's no concrete way to measure it." The other case right now is whether to use a method called the "efficiency gap" to measure gerrymandering, don't know about this one.

[Sableye]

watch they'll affirm gerrymandering in wisconsin but strike down maryland gerrymandering on some technical ground like "well they were overt and open about it"