Prominent Republicans Urge Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering
Source: New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK SEPT. 6, 2017
WASHINGTON — Breaking ranks with many of their fellow Republicans, a group of prominent politicians filed briefs on Tuesday urging the Supreme Court to rule that extreme political gerrymandering — the drawing of voting districts to give lopsided advantages to the party in power — violates the Constitution.
The briefs were signed by Republicans including Senator John McCain of Arizona; Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio; Bob Dole, the former Republican Senate leader from Kansas and the party’s 1996 presidential nominee; former senators John C. Danforth of Missouri, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former governor of California.
“Partisan gerrymandering has become a tool for powerful interests to distort the democratic process,” reads a brief filed by Mr. McCain and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, Gill v. Whitford, No. 16-1161, on Oct. 3.
The Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican State Leadership Committee all filed briefs on the other side. They urged the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to State Assembly districts in Wisconsin that, by some measures, gave Republicans outsize political power unjustified by the overall vote.
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The GOP has been gerrymandering for decades. Now that they have the voting districts the way they want them, they want to make it illegal to change them back. 
If they're willing to return the districts to where they were in 1995, sure, I'd say that would be alright. Right before Newt's bullshit "contract with America" in the mid 90s would be just fine, thank you. After that, the GOP put the pedal to the metal on gerrymandering, and they haven't slowed down since. Now that everything's the way they want it, they want to show the American people (the ones that are paying attention anyway) how magnanimous they are by promising to end gerrymandering. 
That's mighty big of them. 
BULLSHIT They know they're going to get killed in the 2018 mid-terms, and the districts would start being realigned to a more fair and reasonable position. Well, if there's one thing the GOP HATES it's a fair and reasonable playing field. In my opinion this is a Trojan Horse, and I'm hoping our Democratic leaders examine this very closely before opening the gates to let it in.
That's just one man's opinion. Your mileage may vary. 
would never go for that. Leave it up to sources beside themselves? Why, one of those people might be a Democrat, or a minority! I think you get my drift. I really don't think they'd go for it, but I've been wrong before.
