Abstract
The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that excessive partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. A plurality of the Court, however, would hold partisan gerrymandering claims to be nonjusticiable due to the lack of a judicially manageable standard. This Note synthesizes the opinions of a majority of the Court in Vieth v. Jubelirer on the precise harms of partisan gerrymandering and argues that excessive partisan gerrymandering unconstitutionally burdens the representational rights of individual voters. This Note proposes a judicially manageable standard to address that representational harm based on the Court's standard in Shaw v. Reno.
Recommended Citation
Robert A. Koch,
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Gaffney and the Improper Role of Politics in the Districting Process,
39
U. Mich. J. L. Reform
99
(2005).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol39/iss1/5