SUPREME COURT ORDERS RECONSIDERATION OF GERRYMANDERING REMEDY

The United States Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s districts were gerrymandered but found:  “[W]e cannot have confidence that the court adequately grappled with the interests on both sides of the remedial question before us.And because the District Court’s discretion ‘was barely exercised here,’ its order provides no meaningful basis for even deferential review. Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U. S. 7, 27 (2008).  For these reasons, we vacate the District Court’s remedial order and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”  Read the three-page ruling here:  NC v. Covington.