Justice Elena Kagan’s Gerrymandering Fix Is to Put Judges in Charge

Entitlement spending, not taxes or defense, drives the $2 trillion deficit, and both parties are proposing payroll-tax hikes to fund Social Security.

• Kagan's critique: Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court majority has 'got that just been truth wrong,' blaming its hands-off gerrymandering stance for driving politics to extremes.
• GOP gerrymander math: Kim Strassel notes Republicans redrew Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Florida and North Carolina after Texas, with California countering with five Democratic gains to offset Texas's five GOP gains.

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