{"id":12504,"date":"2018-06-18T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:49:30","slug":"justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Ang mga Hustisya ay Nagbaon sa Mga Kaso ng Gerrymandering"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12504","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[103,165,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"The Supreme Court took a pass on one of the most serious challenges facing American democracy this morning, declining for the moment to rein in Democratic and Republican state legislators who\u2019ve manipulated hundreds of congressional and state legislative districts across America to elect their candidates and freeze out their opponents.\r\n\r\nThe rulings in cases from Wisconsin and Maryland set up a new legal showdown, likely this fall, when the justices are expected to hear arguments in <em>Common Cause v. Rucho, <\/em>a partisan redistricting challenge from North Carolina. That case is based on a different legal theory from those used in the Wisconsin and Maryland cases.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is by no means the end of the road,\u201d said Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn. \u201cThe Supreme Court is still actively looking for the right case to establish a standard for what constitutes unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. With Wisconsin and Maryland\u2019s cases still alive, and Common Cause\u2019s North Carolina case awaiting review by the Supreme Court, the fight to establish constitutional limits on partisan gerrymandering is very much alive.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn the Wisconsin case, <em>Gill laban sa Whitford<\/em>, a 7-2 majority of the justices said that Democratic voters who challenged a Republican gerrymander of the state\u2019s congressional districts had not shown that they have been personally damaged and so do not have legal standing to pursue their claims.\r\n\r\n\u201cA plaintiff seeking relief in federal court must first demonstrate that\u2026 he has \u2018a personal stake in the outcome,\u2019\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a 7-2 majority. The justices sent the case back to a lower court to give the plaintiffs an opportunity to present evidence of any harm.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe leave for another day consideration of other possible theories of harm not presented here and whether those theories might present justiciable claims giving rise to statewide remedies,\u201d Roberts wrote.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe remain hopeful that standing can be addressed and we can win justice in the courts\" said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin.\u00a0 \u201cWe even more urgently renew our call on the Wisconsin Legislature to replace this broken system with a transparent, non-partisan process modeled after our neighbor, Iowa, in time for the 2021 redistricting cycle.\"\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, in the Maryland case, <em>Benisek laban kay Lamone<\/em>, the court unanimously upheld a lower court\u2019s refusal to block elections in the state\u2019s historically Republican 6<sup>ika<\/sup> Congressional District. Republicans there allege that the Democratic-controlled state legislature shifted district lines in 2011 to move thousands of GOP voters into districts where they would be vastly outnumbered by Democrats and unable to elect Republican candidates. The Democratic strategy worked, as veteran GOP Rep. Roscoe Bartlett was forced into retirement.\r\n\r\nAgain, however, the justices said voters who claim to have been deprived of their rights by partisan gerrymandering should have a chance to prove their claims; the <em>Benisek<\/em> case was returned to the lower court for further hearings.\r\n\r\n\u201cToday\u2019s decision proves that the Supreme Court is open to striking political gerrymanders,\u201d said Damon Effingham, acting executive director of Common Cause Maryland. \u201cAlong with our allies in the Tame the Gerrymander coalition, we will continue to work to create a fair districting process in Maryland so that everyone, regardless of their political affiliation, has a voice in our democracy.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe cases illustrate how the damage done to voting rights by partisan gerrymandering cuts across party lines, as whichever party commands a majority in the state legislature in the year following the decennial census has a powerful incentive to draw new boundaries that will cement its advantage.\r\n\r\nIn a lengthy concurring opinion in the Gill case, Justice Elena Kagan offered a possible roadmap for subsequent redistricting challenges, detailing harms partisan gerrymandering has inflicted on the ability of Congress and state legislatures to function effectively.\r\n\r\n\u201cPartisan gerrymandering goes back to the Republic\u2019s earliest days; and yes, American democracy has survived,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut technology makes today\u2019s gerrymandering altogether different from the crude linedrawing of the past. New redistricting software enables pinpoint precision in designing districts. With such tools, mapmakers can capture every last bit of partisan advantage, while still meeting traditional districting requirements (compactness, contiguity, and the like)\u2026 \u00a0Gerrymanders have thus become ever more extreme and durable, insulating officeholders against all but the most titanic shifts in the political tides. The 2010 redistricting cycle produced some of the worst partisan gerrymanders on record\u2026 The technology will only get better, so the 2020 cycle will only get worse.\u201d\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Justices Punt on Gerrymandering Cases - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justices Punt on Gerrymandering Cases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/justices-punt-on-gerrymandering-cases\/\",\"name\":\"Justices Punt on Gerrymandering Cases - 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