Courthouse News: Not Your Father’s Gerrymandering, Lawyer Warns High Court

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Urging the Supreme Court to crack down on Wisconsin Republicans for political gerrymandering, an attorney for voters warned the justices Tuesday that turning a blind eye will only embolden Machiavellian lawmakers to embrace advancing technology. “If you let this go, if you say we’re not going to have a judicial remedy for this problem, in 2020 you’re going to have a festival of copycat gerrymandering the likes of which this country has never seen,”  Paul Smith, an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center, said at Tuesday’s arguments.

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