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Supreme Court Says Partisan Gerrymandering Is Not For Federal Courts To Decide

The majority opinion states that the drawing of electoral maps is too political for federal courts to get involved.
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SCOTUS handed down two decisions Thursday concerning gerrymandering and the upcoming census.

A conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court that federal courts have no role to play in deciding cases.

The justices were considering two cases: a Republican partisan gerrymandering case in and a Democratic partisan gerrymandering case in . Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion and said the U.S. Constitution does not bar partisan gerrymandering. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the minority opinion and was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer in dissent.

The Supreme Court also a citizenship question from being added to the U.S. Census — for now. The majority opinion sent the case back to the U.S. Commerce Department to add an explanation for why they want to add the question. Host Frank Stasio gets analysis from ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii.

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Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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