Federal Court Strikes Down "Unconstitutional" Gerrymandering in North Carolina

[LynnInDenver]

I figured it was what you were arguing. Again, it's the nuclear option that they'd prefer not to use for that reason. But I'm also sure we can't trust Republicans to just do what's right in terms of voluntarily doing a bipartisan redrawing or bringing in an actual independent committee.

Can't trust the Democrats to do that either.

Which leaves us at "court orders them to bring in a properly bipartisan committee or an independent committee," and it may require said court to APPOINT that committee to make sure it gets done. I'm not sure they have anything better than that to force the Republicans to do this correctly without tripping your filter (read: without ensuring that Republicans have to be voted out at an 80%+ margin), and I can see that some will still scream bloody murder that the judges are interfering with the process.

Although regarding your distrust of Democrats gerrymandering, as noted, at the very least under the circumstances, the Democrats in many areas are, at least, finding the public reaction to gerrymandering enough that they'll avoid it for a while, even if they don't find it's use against them leaving a bad enough taste for them to avoid it on principle.