Supreme Court finds that courts can't rule on partisan gerrymandering cases

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that political partisan gerrymandering cases present a question that courts cannot decide.

The justices made the ruling in a pair of cases presented over district maps in Maryland and North Carolina, alleged to be instances of unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's majority opinion that federal courts cannot consider such challenges.

The opinion vacates previous rulings on the district maps in Maryland and North Carolina, and requests that the cases be dismissed "for lack of jurisdiction."

The split ruling was along ideological lines.

–This breaking news report will be updated.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/450623-supreme-court-rules-that-courts-cant-rule-in-political-partisan

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In a surprising ruling, the Supreme Court has just prevented the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census — at least, for now.

The 5-4 opinion in the case Department of Commerce v. New York, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, partially upheld a January ruling from Southern District of New York judge Jesse Furman. Furman ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the census violated US law by being “arbitrary and capricious,” since the Trump administration’s stated reasoning for adding the question (to help enforce the Voting Rights Act) was shown at trial to be an after-the-fact rationalization.

While Roberts rejected most of Furman’s arguments, he believed that Furman was correct to send the citizenship question back to the Census Bureau for further explanation of why it was needed — preventing it from being added to the Census forms for now.

The decision is surprising because the court’s conservative majority was expected to side with the administration and allow the citizenship question to move forward. But it’s not clear what this does to the timing of the 2020 Census — whose forms were supposed to be finalized by Monday.

Read the opinion here.

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/27/18759621/supreme-court-census-decision-citizenship-question-ruling

So the timing of the census could be changed?