WE SYMPATHIZE with the federal three-judge panel that on Monday repudiated North Carolina’s outrageously gerrymandered congressional district map. But the judges will have to move with extreme care over the coming weeks to avoid mass confusion before Election Day. In a near-identical reprise of a previous decision, the judges found that North Carolina’s legislature drew the state’s congressional districts with impermissible partisan intent. North Carolina, a state that votes about evenly for Republicans and Democrats, elected only three Democrats in its 13 districts in 2016. If North Carolina’s wholly unjustifiable gerrymander is legal, then practically any super-partisan redistricting scheme would be.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2018 23:15 UTC