North Carolina's Gerrymandering Drama Is Only Going to Get Worse
Perhaps it wasn’t the best idea for Republican state legislators in North Carolina to openly admit that they were drawing partisan gerrymanders. “I acknowledge freely that this would be a political gerrymander, which is not against the law”—that’s how state Representative David Lewis, the chief GOP official in charge of redistricting, characterized the latest congressional maps. He’d been sent back to the drawing board in 2016 by a federal court, which said the previous maps he’d authorized constituted racial gerrymanders. So Lewis and his team, still seeking to maximize Republican advantage, opted to redraw districts along aggressively partisan lines instead.
Lewis’s legal analysis was clearly lacking, deemed his revised plan an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Part of a spanning most of the past four federal election cycles, and involving multiple revisions
