These laws in state Constitutions regarding keeping gerrymandering down to a dull roar should really be given more respect by arrogant partisan state legislatures. State supreme courts do have plenty of partisan hacks in them, but they are not as hackish as the state legislators themselves.
The elephant is the room of course is NYS, where the legislature displayed hubris on steroids, and just ignored the Constitution regarding gerrymandering as if it were not there. They were than confident about the hack quotient of NYS higher courts. We shall see.
And then you have Ohio where the Rs refused to try anything congressionally but the court is demanding a mathematical impossibility at the legislative level.
Well that is playing the card of making the court draw the map, so it is only good for two years, and then pack the court one way or the other to ramp up its hack quotient. Too bad there isn't a hell, because if there were, they would all be going to hell for the redistricting sins.
Citation desperately needed.
