Opinion | Federal courts, not state ones, should decide congressional redistricting disputes WashTimesOpEd
threw out a redistricting map created by a Republican-controlled state legislature. The plan would have resulted in the GOP winning 10 or 11 of 14 congressional seats.North Carolina is hardly alone. State courts threw out a partisan map favoring Democrats in New York and other maps in Alaska, Maryland and Ohio.
Voters have expressed their preferences by awarding Republicans control of more state legislatures and at least initial authority over most congressional and state legislative redistricting matters. Leaving redistricting to state legislatures is no more political than constant litigation because the judicial branches of most state governments are hardly free of partisanship. And commissions are remote from and not accountable to voters.justices and judges through elections or gubernatorial appointments.
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