I will never understand how the court found that materially disenfranchising voters by packing and cracking them to dilute their political influence is part of a free and fair election. Their solution is to just vote for people who wont gerrymander. So how does that work when your influence is already gerrymandered, or you have a max of 10 years to overcome a gerrymander or have all of your gained influence undone with a new gerrymander. And its really hard especially in southern states to separate race from politics when 9 out of 10 black voters support Democrats.
I live next to district 6 (Clyburn) which is packed to hell to ensure district 1 (Mace) stays republican. They fit all of the urban areas they could and packed it into one district, surgically placing the most liberal areas and the towns with the highest percentage of minorities to pack it as much as they could. It has the downtown areas of Charleston AND Columbia in it, two cities about a 90 minute drive away from each other. Its a travesty.