Top Republicans have complained about aggressive gerrymandering by Democrats in states like New York, but there's little appetite to bar the practice.
"That's just the way the game has always been played," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said with a shrug.
"I don't have any silver bullets for it," he said."The main protection is the Voting Rights Act in minority voting districts. Other than that, it's pretty much the wild, Wild West." "I think it's best left to the states," said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., a member of the Republican leadership."And the states go too far. The courts have every right to step in — and often do."last week, which creates 22 districts that lean Democratic and just four that lean Republican. In a cruel twist, New York Republicans are feeling the pain that their counterparts across the country mercilessly inflicted on Democrats over the last decade.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., the chair of the Democrats' House campaign arm, who advocated for an even more aggressive gerrymander in a recent"I'd ask them why every one of them voted against H.R. 1, which would have banned gerrymandering," he said. "It's the people that should be deciding who their representatives are, not the other way around," she said.
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