Supreme Court agrees to hear Wisconsin Partisan gerrymandering case

From [HERE] The US Supreme Court [official website] agreed Monday to review Gill v. Whitford [docket; order, PDF], a partisan-gerrymandering case from Wisconsin. The state is appealing the decision of a three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin [official website], which struck down [order, PDF] a redistricting map that was created by the state's Republican-controlled legislature on the grounds that it was a product of partisan gerrymandering. The Supreme Court also put the lower court's order for the state to create a new redistricting plan by the fall on hold as per the request [application, PDF] of the appellants. The opinion states that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor would have denied the application, which could be indicative of how the court will decide the case as the justices had to consider whether the state was likely to succeed on the merits when making their decision. Arguments for the case will likely be heard in November or December.