Editorial Roundup: United States

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

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May 5

The Washington Post says Congress must act to stop abuse of redistricting

Florida was supposed to be the finale of this year’s race to the bottom on redistricting. Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week.

The GOP started it in Texas last summer. A back-and-forth ensued, with Democrats redrawing maps in California and Virginia while Republicans did so in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

Simultaneously, a long-running constitutional dispute over the Voting Rights Act came to a head last week when the high court limited the consideration of race while designing districts in Louisiana v. Callais.

The court’s ruling wasn’t about partisan gerrymandering, per se. It was about when states could be compelled to draw majority-minority districts under the VRA and the Constitution. In practice, those districts tend to be Democratic.

The decision lifts...