Link to the Opinion of the Court in Rucho v Common Cause and linked cases.
The Supreme Court rules that partisan gerrymandering claims are a non-justiciable political question and remanded the cases to the District Courts with orders to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.
Because of the nature of this appeal, that means that all partisan gerrymandering court orders nation wide are rendered null and void and states may resume their previous gerrymandered districts if they so wish.
This does NOT affect STATE Court anti-gerrymandering orders, such as those in Florida and Pennsylvania. Those will stand. State Courts may continue to adjudicate partisan political gerrymandering claims.
Racial gerrymanders will still be subject to adjudication in Federal Court.
The Democrats wasted an opportunity in Obama’s first two years when they had a Senate super majority, instead wasting political capital on Obamacare. They could have passed legislation mandating the use of bi-partisan redistricting commissions.
They could have, but the leadership wasn’t there. Obama wasn’t the best president. His incompetence destroyed the DNC. He was not a very forward thinker. Nancy Pelosi isn’t much of a boat rocker herself.