I don’t get it. Shouldn’t the party in power in the state draw the districts? Why is this a FEDERAL question? The feds determine the population because of the Constitutional requirement of a census.
I don’t see fed involvement anywhere in district drawing unless one “finds” one in the 14th amendment.
Take a look at the Maryland district map. It looks sort of like a monkey puked on a map and they drew circles around the chunks. The sole Republican member of congress’s district wraps around my town because they wanted to preserve us for the liberal.
Why is this a FEDERAL question?
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No Constitutional scholar here, but I suppose it becomes a federal question because the gerrymandering 1) affects the state’s representation in Congress and 2)presents an impediment to the voting rights of some of the state’s citizens.