Don't forget how low Republicans can go

 

This case has been heard by the Supreme Court, but of course they haven't decided it yet.  The article has one lovely piece of paragraphic prose that demonstrates the thinking of some members of the GOP.

I’m the Governor of North Carolina. This Fringe Claim Before the Supreme Court Would Upend Democracy.

Here's the quodacious quote:

"Republicans in the [North Carolina] legislature have also gerrymandered districts in diabolical ways. In 2016, state Republicans drew a congressional redistricting map that favored Republicans 10 to 3. They did so, the Republican chairman of a legislative redistricting committee explained, “because I do not believe it’s possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.”

Now, Democrats have been guilty of gerrymandering when the pen is in their hands (as my home state of Maryland demonstrates).  There should be a nationwide standard of how to draw fair congressional districts.  But the case under consideration would go in the opposite direction, and it shouldn't.  Because if legislatures are in charge of drawing the districts and that can't be questioned, I'm almost certain Republicans could draw maps that favor their party in every district in the state.  Democrats, naively, might still leave a couple of districts for the minority, even if they don't want to.