Racial Gerrymandering and the Courts

I have some thoughts about yesterday’s oral arguments and the increasingly broken Democratic system.  The fact that the Democrats would have to have a 7-point edge in the popular vote to win the House is a serious problem, but the tragedy of vote suppression and dilution is that they’re a very effective self-perpetuating cycle.

Speaking of which, I would like to nominate Felix Frankfurter’s majority opinion in Colegrove v. Green for the inner circle of the specious argument hall of fame.  “We must defer to the democratic legislatures (sic) so that voters disenfranchised by malapportionment can petition their representatives for redress.”