Should Democrats fight fire with fire — which is to say, draw shamelessly pro-Democratic maps wherever the party has power? EricLevitz writes
All we are saying is give gerrymandering a chance. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In 2004, Anthony Kennedy suggested that he was open to declaring extreme partisan gerrymanders unconstitutional, if someone could show him a clear, impartial standard for identifying them.
Then Anthony Kennedy’s retirement diminished that hope. And on Thursday, the court’s conservative majority extinguished it, ruling that federal courts have no role in blocking extreme partisan gerrymanders. Given this reality, might it be more constructive to fight fire with fire — which is to say, to draw shamelessly pro-Democratic maps wherever the party has power, so as to simultaneously rebalance federal representation, and give Republicans greater incentive to reach a bipartisan agreement in favor of universal nonpartisan districting? Democrats currently have control over 14 state governments. With a strong showing in 2020, they could expand that number.
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