—Justice Clarence Thomas

“Racial gerrymandering is cool but only when it benefits the Democrats.” I sadly suspect this is the de facto legal status quo in the United States of America when it comes to congressional redistricting.

Indeed, where the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was meant to prevent racial discrimination in American elections, it is now used as an unprincipled cudgel to privilege racial discrimination in a particular direction that almost always benefits the Democratic Party.

If gerrymandering is an inherently political process whereby partisans use their power to draw election maps to maintain and gain more power, then that process must be equally allowed to all partisans in power – regardless of their party, sex, race, color or creed – or even the sovereign state in which t

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