… Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, Evenwel v. Abbott. It’s about whether voting districts need to have equal populations (as they do today), or whether they need to have equal numbers of eligible voters: adults who are citizens and who haven’t been disenfranchised as a result of imprisonment or felony convictions.
Equal population districts have been taken for granted; every state draws its districts in this way, and it was surprising to see the court even consider the question. But it’s a system that has been an advantage for Democrats for a long time. If the court requires that districts have equal numbers of eligible voters, it will make the elections of representatives to Congress even more biased toward Republicans. CONT.
Nate Cohn, New York Times