Supreme Court gears up to hear second partisan gerrymandering case

Published March 26, 2018 4:01am ET



The fight over partisan gerrymandering will be before the Supreme Court again next week with a case that could potentially affect future elections at the state and federal levels.

The justices will gather Wednesday to hear oral arguments in a challenge to the boundaries drawn by Maryland Democrats in 2011 for the state’s 6th Congressional District, which the plaintiffs in the case argued was a partisan gerrymander that violated their First Amendment rights.

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