Former AG Holder and Arnold Schwarzenegger call upon Supreme Court to limit partisan gerrymandering.
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Schwarzenegger, a former two-term Republican governor of California, added:"Gerrymandering, it is a national scandal." The two newest justices, who were appointed by President Donald Trump, said the court should be especially reluctant to open the door to challenges based on excessive partisanship given that more states are adopting methods, such as redistricting commissions, that take the map-drawing assignment away from legislatures.
Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed a similar concern:"Why should we wade into this when there are alternatives that exist?"But several of the court's more liberal members said they were open to finding a way to strike down excessive examples of partisan gerrymandering. As it stands now, said Elena Kagan,"We're leaving it to the professional politicians who have an interest in perpetuating their own representation.
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