NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: U.S. Supreme Court Holds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims Nonjusticiable
June 27, 2019
June 27, 2019
NEW YORK, June 27 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek ignored its own precedent established in three prior cases in holding that challenges to partisan gerrymandering are nonjusticiable and cannot be heard by federal courts. The Court left the remedy for addressing this issue with Congress and state legislators. For decades, civil rights and other advocates have . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek ignored its own precedent established in three prior cases in holding that challenges to partisan gerrymandering are nonjusticiable and cannot be heard by federal courts. The Court left the remedy for addressing this issue with Congress and state legislators. For decades, civil rights and other advocates have . . .