SCOTUS Ends One Partisan Gerrymandering Battle; More Remain

Pennsylvania voters challenging GOP-friendly congressional districts were booted out of the U.S. Supreme Court May 29.

The court’s one-sentence order dismissing their case as moot was the latest in the battle over Pennsylvania’s 18-member congressional district, which Democrats hope will help flip control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court didn’t explain its reason for dismissing the case. But it comes on the heels of a parallel state supreme court decision finding that the process was unconstitutionally stacked against Democrats, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, an election law professor at Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Fla., told Bloomberg Law. ...