When I first read about this, I wondered, “just how much gerrymandering is Constitutional?” Surely no one expects a governing party to draw districts that work against them. I am genuinely curious as to what standards (if any) are being applied. And no, ‘pissing off Liberals’ is not even close to an objective and repeatable standard. We can’t let the minority party have a heckler’s veto.
These partisan courts should be abolished. They are more powerful than the other two branches. It’s time to ignore them. They only rule one way.
There are actually computer programs that can draw the most compact set of districts based solely on where people live without any regard to their race or political persuasion or anything else, simply upon where people live.
This would be the most honest, unbiased way to do it, so we know it will never happen.
Associate Justice Frankfurter wrote scathing dissents.
Here's one:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr/Dissent_Frankfurter