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The Supreme Court decided not to decide Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case. But here’s why it will be back.

On Monday, the Supreme Court surprised observers by deciding not to decide Gill v. Whitford, the high-profile case about partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Instead, the court remanded the case back to Wisconsin district court to give the plaintiffs “an opportunity” to provide better evidence about whether they had the right to bring the suit at all.

By Barry Burden and David Canon