Manipulating political boundaries every ten years clogs up court dockets, unleashes raw political forces, and breeds cynicism everywhere in the nation. There have been 219 cases involving state legislative and congressional redistricting since 2010, and that does not include another wave of lawsuits over municipal and county redistricting. Professor Justin Levitt, of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, tracks court cases exposing our nation’s troubled history with redistricting, which has essentially morphed to match the definition of the term “gerrymandering” as legislative districts are often drawn to please politicians, not voters.    Both political parties are guilty of this practice (the Florida Supreme Court this month invalidated several congressional districts as unduly influenced by partisanship where Republicans hold the legislature and governorship) and one of them has an opportunity to reform the system. Maryland, which Democrats until...(Read Full Article)