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    With redistricting decision, high court draws line on political line-drawing

    Jun 27, 2019 4 minutes

    “Snake on the lake.” “The Franklin County sinkhole.” These vivid nicknames describe strangely shaped Ohio congressional districts, created by a 2011 Republican-engineered redistricting intended to favor the GOP.

    Democrats and citizen activists had hoped the federal courts would strike down this map as a too-partisan gerrymander in time to draw new, more neutral districts prior to the 2020 elections. Now that’s not going to happen. On Thursday the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, held that federal courts are powerless to rule on the deeply political gerrymandering issue.

    “Federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties, with no plausible grant of authority in the Constitution, and no legal standards to

    Districts that run through middle of housesContrary to democracyFight moves to the states

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