LOS ANGELES — Six years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld highly partisan state election maps in North Carolina and Maryland — ruling that federal courts cannot block states from drawing up maps that favor one party over the other — one of the court's liberal justices issued a warning.

"If left unchecked, gerrymanders like the ones here may irreparably damage our system of government," Associate Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent. ×

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