Court blasts both parties for gerrymandering, but punts to the states (this is why the GOP is stuffing courts):
GERRYMANDERING
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 5-4 decision for the conservative majority.
"Excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust. But the fact that such gerrymandering is 'incompatible with democratic principles' ... does not mean that the solution lies with the federal judiciary," he wrote.
In the gerrymandering cases, the Court punts to the states thoogh, so things are going to get really ugly now, a point crushed by the dissent:
"(G)errymandering is, as so many Justices have emphasized before, anti-democratic in the most profound sense," Kagan wrote.
"Of all times to abandon the Court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one," Kagan said. "The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court's role in that system is to defend its foundations. None is more important than free and fair elections. With respect but deep sadness, I dissent."
This sets up YEARS of battles. AS a simple example, leaving things to the states means that African Americans in Mississippi basically have no vote despite the size of their population. This will eventually become a lawsuit and an Equal protection case, which is the point made by the dissent
