What has the Supreme Court decided in the past about gerrymandering?

Question

civics, gerrymandering

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It has upheld it. This is old stuff, from the early days of the republic, after some dude named Gerry created a district that looked like a salamander - thus a "gerrymander" was born.

"In a decision on June 28, 2006, the United States Supreme Court upheld most of a Texas congressional map engineered in 2003 by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.[17] The seven-to-two decision now allows politicians in all of the USA to redraw and gerrymander districts as often as they like (not just after census-mandated reapportionment and redistricting) to protect their political parties and seats, so long as they do not harm racial and ethnic minority groups. A 5-4 majority threw out one Congressional district in the case for this reason."