Federal Judges Basically Challenge John Roberts To Come Down And Gerrymander North Carolina Himself
Reconsidering the case in light of Gill v. Whitford, panel decides that plaintiffs still have standing to challenge district map.
The Supreme Court’s “unanimous” decision in the gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford, is one of the most cowardly pieces of legal writing emanating from the Roberts Court. Instead of deciding anything of import, the Supreme Court punted the case on standing. On a bad interpretation of standing actually because Anthony Kennedy could not bring himself to piss off Republicans while he was busy engineering his replacement.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/08/federal-judges-basically-challenge-john-roberts-to-come-down-and-gerrymander-north-carolina-himself/