Democracy, SCOTUS Reputation at Stake in Gerrymandering Case

By Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg BNA

American democracy is at stake, and only the U.S. Supreme Court can fix it. That’s what the attorney representing voters challenging Wisconsin’s voting districts told the justices Oct. 3 during oral argument in a case that could drastically change the way states draw voting districts for federal and state elections.

The plaintiffs say Wisconsin Republicans stacked the deck against Democrats so that the result of elections was essentially preordained in Republicans’ favor. They point to 2012, when Republicans got fewer than half of the votes but were able to secure a super majority of ...