“He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did.”
The Supreme Court of the United States says it is helpless to defend a basic tenant of democracy, the idea that voters should choose their representatives and not the other way around.
A sharply divided court ruled Thursday that, even though it is counter to democracy to allow a political party to cook the books of drawing legislative and congressional districts to favor itself, it would be far too complex, arbitrary and — irony alert — anti-democratic for the federal courts to step in to fix it.