G. K. Butterfield: “It has always perplexed me that we have treated the residents and the citizens of the territories different from those…”

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.

Unfortunately, the High Court decided that political gerrymandering is not protected by the Federal Constitution.

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

The State supreme court ruled that the congressional map was an extreme, intentional partisan gerrymander and directed legislature to fix it.