My Answer: You take any state total population and divide that by the number of House Representatives for a state, and the result (rounded up) is the number of constituents each Representative will have. Then mandate that a state unbiased committee draw the lines to effectively contain that number of constituents; disregarding the party affiliation, race, gender, sexual origination, or citizenship of the constituents.
"What’s at stake in Supreme Court consideration of redistricting" PBS NewsHour 3/26/2019
Excerpt
SUMMARY: Can electoral maps go too far in favoring one political party over the other? It’s a question the Supreme Court has previously left unresolved but is considering again as it takes up challenges to congressional maps drawn by North Carolina Republicans and Maryland Democrats. Amna Nawaz talks to National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle about the challenge of a "manageable standard" for redistricting.
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