[Magdalen] today's SUPREMES NYTimes

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Opening salvo for a NYTimes article on today's SCOTUS activity...  I hold 
out hope.
Lynn


WASHINGTON - Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has long been troubled by extreme 
partisan gerrymandering, where the party in power draws voting districts to 
give itself a lopsided advantage in elections. But he has never found a 
satisfactory way to determine when voting maps are so warped by politics 
that they cross a constitutional line.

After spirited Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, there was reason to think 
Justice Kennedy may be ready to join the court's more liberal members in a 
groundbreaking decision that could reshape American democracy by letting 
courts determine when lawmakers have gone too far.

Justice Kennedy asked skeptical questions of lawyers defending a Wisconsin 
legislative map that gave Republicans many more seats in the State Assembly 
than their statewide vote tallies would have predicted. He asked no 
questions of the lawyer representing the Democratic voters challenging the 
map.


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