The dissenting Supreme Court justices in the Gerry-mandering case (Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor) said,

For the first time ever, this Court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.

And not just any constitutional violation. The partisan gerrymanders in these cases  depriv-ed citizens of the most fundamental of their constitutional rights: the rights to participate equally in the political process, to join with others to advance political beliefs, and to choose their political representatives. In so doing, the partisan gerrymanders here de-based and dishonored our democracy, tur-ning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people.

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