Federal panel says MD redistricting lawsuit can move forward

[Heisenberg]

Maryland is gerrymandered.  So is Illinois.  Add to that Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.  I don't care which party does it, it is my least favorite thing about the American political process. Gerrymandering has just got to be struck down by the Supreme Court in my lifetime!

If the Supreme Court doesn't do it, it's not happening. I don't understand why conservatives don't oppose gerrymandering. I'll never understand that.

Republicans don't oppose it (right now) because the current maps overall heavily favor them. If, say, there was a decade where Democrats had total control of redistricting in large states, then it would certainly be reversed.

[Heisenberg]

We should just let the House of Representatives draw the districts themselves.  Take it away from the states!  Whichever party is the majority gets to draw all the districts, seems fair.

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He was being sarcastic.

[Heisenberg]

Maryland is probably the worst gerrymandered state, whereas Ohio's gerrymandering is probably the one most talked about for one that isn't gerrymandered as bad as most states.

Ohio's gerrymandering is overrated. #RealAtlasSayings

A 9-7 R delegation from Ohio would be fair. This decade's Ohio map is an improvement in the sense that they got rid of the Columbus crack. The long, thin Toledo to Cleveland district needs to go, though.

Great news. With a liberal SCOTUS we could see an end to partisan gerrymandering by the end of the decade.

This.

And its ironic that its centers around CD6 as 1) its one of the lesser gerrmandered MD seats and 2) it almost flipped in 2014. Hogan carried it by 14%, IIRC.

The reason why the 6th was sued is because the western panhandle of the state is very culturally and politically different than the DC suburbs, and historically the western-based 6th district never dipped down into the DC suburbs.