Partisan Gerrymandering Constitutional: Supreme Court — Reports

WASHINGTON, DC— The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to opponents of partisan gerrymandering, with a 5-to-4 vote in favor of allowing the majority party of a state legislature to redraw voting maps along party lines, reports The New York Times.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr, writing the court's decision, stated, "We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts." The Constitution, he wrote, in granting state legislatures the role of drawing election maps, presupposed that politics would play a role, and that judges had no place in questioning the judgments of lawmakers.