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U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenges to gerrymandering

By REUTERS

JANUARY 4, 2019 22:12

Accusations that state legislators drew electoral maps for partisan advantage in violation of the US Constitution will once again come before the US Supreme Court, which agreed on Friday to decide cases from North Carolina and Maryland that could have enduring political consequences nationwide.

The high court has struggled to resolve the legality of the practice called partisan gerrymandering in which boundaries of legislative districts are delineated with the aim of tightening one party's grip on power.

The justices in June 2018 failed to issue definitive rulings in cases from Wisconsin and Maryland that election reformers had hoped would prompt the high court to impose limits on partisan gerrymandering.

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