Another massacre for conservatives at the Supreme Court
Unless Congress acts to limit the power of the federal courts, the entire GOP dominance over state legislatures is permanently in jeopardy. Based on a unanimous opinion from the high court today, the ACLU and Democrat operatives could now sue in federal court over almost any GOP state legislative map, apply macro disparate impact theory to assert that there are too many Republican districts, violating the 14th Amendment, and then potentially demand immediate elections to rectify the maps, even during off years. At the same time, even a "more conservative" Supreme Court cannot be counted upon to protect real liberties and overturn terrible lower court decisions.....
In recent years, the lower courts have literally ruled that Democrats have the right to use race to maximize their political advantage simply because their voters happen to be overwhelmingly black. Yet Republicans evidently don't have a commensurate right to maximize their natural advantages with other voters and jurisdictions, which explains why Maryland's map – the most gerrymandered in the country – is still standing.
The Supreme Court has now allowed the lower court assault on North Carolina's federal maps, state maps, and photo ID/early voting law to stand. And this trend is not limited to North Carolina. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is leading the effort to use the court's opinions in these cases to overturn any semblance of election sanity in every other GOP-controlled state.
What these cases collectively demonstrate is that, per one of the theses of my book, the power of good judges to save conservative political outcomes is nowhere near the power of liberal judges to do harm to our goals and the Constitution itself. With the lower courts irremediably broken for a generation (no, Trump will not be able to fundamentally swing the balance of most circuits), and the Left in full control of the legal profession and the flow of lawsuits, Gorsuch's appointment to the high court will not change much of the outcome. Endless reams of lower court case law will be built ever larger, creating new electoral advantages, and the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Roberts, will remain reluctant to overturn those decisions.........
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/another-massacre-for-conservatives-at-the-supreme-court
In short, Democrats are allowed to gerrymander, Republicans are not.
Democrats may use the courts at any time to throw out
election district maps drawn once every ten years
by the state legislature in line with the census.