GERRYMANDERING DIDN’T BECOME A BIG DEAL UNTIL IT STARTED BEING DONE TO, RATHER THAN BY, DEMOCRATS: Pivotal Moment’ for Democrats? Gerrymandering Heads to Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has found redistricting on partisan lines to be non-justiciable, because there’s really no way to do it along non-partisan lines. (“Non-partisan” commissions are anything but — see what the Democrats conned the GOP into in California, for example.)