Early last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, No. 13-1314, an important case that may determine who gets to decide how congressional districts are created: the electorate or the elected.

The case arose out of Proposition 106, a ballot initiative passed in 2000 by Arizona voters who sought to transfer legislative and congressional redistricting authority from the partisan state legislature to a non-partisan independent commission.

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