NYT’ s The Tilt:

You’ve probably seen gerrymandered congressional maps with snaking, winding, twisting districts drawn to give one party an advantage.

In the not too distant future, it might be possible to imagine even crazier maps.

For decades, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, has effectively put a ceiling on partisan gerrymandering, especially in the big diverse states. It hasn’t merely been a limit on gerrymandering; it’s the only meaningful federal limitation on partisan gerrymandering.

So if the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2, as it is considering , any equally populated House district is fair game, at least as far as federal law is concerned. There would be no federal law t

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