It took Republicans controlling state legislatures and Republicans using that power to gerrymander state legislative and congressional districts to finally move judges to end gerrymandering. Republicans in Congress ought to pick up the baton and pass a federal law ending gerrymandering at the state legislative and congressional levels for good.
How might that law read? Something like this: "All state legislative and congressional districts shall be drawn to be compact, contiguous, and without intentionally granting partisan or racial advantage." Actually, Republicans when they controlled Congress in the early part of the last century did pass such a federal statute with regard to congressional districts until the Supreme Court interpreted that law to continue partisan gerrymandering.
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