The Supreme Court has accepted a case looking at how Congressional districts are drawn. How it is being approached highlights for me just how out of whack our judicial system has become and how far from the Constitution we have let the courts distance themselves. First indication is how every case is reported with a liberal vs. conservative justice score. For some reason, we have let the courts become political with judges and justices now of either one or the other persuasion. We label them by who placed them in office. So much for blind justice.
Any effort to interpret the Constitution as it is written is met with scoffs by the left. For them, it is a living document that is to be interpreted in the light of today’s society. Claiming to know better than the framers, they make it mean anything to fit their desired outcome. In the case of district mapping, Article 1 of the Constitution (“The Legislative Branch”) says nothing about how they are to be drawn. Some Justices are saying it’s up to the states because of this absence of direction. Other Justices think they should determine how it should be done because….well, they want to?
As for the issue of gerrymandering, I know one thing for sure. Leaving anything up to the persons who benefit from the outcome of their decisions is a recipe for disaster. Add campaign finance and voting laws to this item and you have the means to throttle any semblance of a real democracy.
Current Day Publius 