WI gerrymandering case REMANDED back to lower court

https://twitter.com/lissawicks/status/1008719490815799296

(This is the case involving a numeric metric of gerrymandering, the “wasted votes” measure.)

«Take tweets saying Gill v. Whitford (gerrymandering) was dismissed with a grain of salt – it was remanded to the district court to give the plaintiffs a chance to “prove concrete and particularized injuries.” Still alive (in theory).»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts-law/gerrymander/?utm_term=.9cbb22189ac0

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/efficiency-gap-gerrymandering/551492/ has this to say:

«The danger isn’t the efficiency gap itself, but rather the temptation to look only at the efficiency gap, and make it the effective definition of partisan gerrymandering in the future.»

Well, dang, here’s what Nina Totenberg has to say (https://twitter.com/NinaTotenberg/status/1008719969532678145):

«Supreme Court punts on extreme partisan gerrymandering, but makes it more difficult to bring a suit in the future.»

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