SCOTUS signed it’s death knell by approving this idea of redistricting by “bipartisan commissions”. Yeah, bipartisan my arse. We all see where this is heading.
Yeah, Arizona voted for a ‘bi-partisan’ commission to re district in 2010. 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats and 1 ‘Independent’. Turns out the Independent that Jan Brewer picked for the commission was really a Democrat. The 3 Dems met in secret, behind closed doors. They came up with their own redistricting plan and voted it in without any input froom the 2 Republicans. So, in a state with an R Governor, 2 R Senators, an R Attorney General and an R Sec of State, 5 of the 9 Congressional seats went to Democrats in 2010. Jan Brewer sued to overturn the new map and a Lib judge threw the case out. In 2012, we were able to get the Conressional representation back to 5 Republicans and 4 Dems, but the plan put in place still has power. DO NOT GO WITH BI-PARTISAN COMMISSIONS. If you want to do away with Gerrymandering, let a computer draw up the districts with as even a population in each as possible. But there is that little thing called ‘districting to assure that minorities are represented’. There’s always a fly in the ointment, isn’t there?