The latest National Review features this blurb about the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest dalliance with electoral redistricting.

The Supreme Court took two cases on the subject of partisan gerrymandering and unanimously failed to resolve them. In one case it found that the plaintiffs hadn’t demonstrated standing to sue (kicking that issue back down to the lower courts); in the other, it found that the plaintiffs had waited too long to seek an injunction. On the underlying question here, the Court should ultimately find that partisan gerrymandering, however obnoxious it may be, is not a problem for the judicial branch to address. Redistricting is an inherently political process given to the states, partisan gerrymandering is a natural result of this system and had taken place throughout American history, and there is no objective way for courts to decide what constitutes too much of it. Whatever ails our politics, judicial management of it is not the answer.