SCOTUS shoots down Ohio voting district challenge

[Benton]

(10-09-2019, 10:17 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: My entire point is that establishment of State voter districts is a State matter, and of no concern to the Federal Courts, let alone the SCOTUS.  If enough people in each State become dissatisfied with how districts are drawn, then they need to vote out their incumbents, and demand that things change.

Which would be easy to do... if the districts weren't gerrymandered in favor of those incumbents. 

Gerrymandering flies into the face of the 15th in spirit, if not the letter of the law (although it could be argued some districts are designed to prohibit the effectiveness of votes based on race, religion or gender).

I'm more of a 'states should have more control than the feds' guy, but voting is one of those basic foundations of our democracy that only the feds really have the power to intervene and say "you're doing it wrong."