Graham v. Adams
Rejected partisan gerrymandering claims as to congressional and state house districts. The Court held that the partisanship in the drafting of the current maps “does not rise to the level of a clear, flagrant, or unwarranted deviation from constitutional limitations or a threat to our democratic form of government.”
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