It will be interesting to see where this line of cases ends up. They seem to suggest that a Dem partisan gerrymander is ok because there's no standard to determine how much gerrymandering is too much. However a Pub gerrymander may not be ok since in many states there is a disparate effect of racial and ethnic minorities which vote consistently Dem. Pub gerrymanders that pack Dems cannot avoid packing minorities, but the reverse is not true. If carried to the extreme it will create an asymmetrical view of the parties by the courts, which would be a marked departure from the cases of the 1990's.
How NC republicans will be able to gerrymander NC during the next session will clearly depend on the NC judicial election this year.
