We know the adage that voters should choose their representatives rather than representatives choosing their voters.

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently took up an original challenge to the Redistricting Commission’s proposed map, chosen by the tie-breaker, former Justice John Wallace, for New Jersey congressional districts (In the Matter of Establishment of Congressional Districts by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission (2022)). The court noted that the commission’s process is “intensely political, not legal” and that the court had no role in the outcome of that process unless the map is “unlawful,” and would not “decide whether one map is fairer or better than another.”

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