Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain?

Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain?

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is at least a little surprising because it puts the justices squarely back into an area of law that they have openly said they found a headache – and one that they had seemingly found a way to neatly sidestep last decade. The case, which the court will hear on October 11, involves Black voters’ inequitable treatment in congressional redistricting after…