"Let�s talk about today�s argument in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission in Plain English."

Amy Howe has a readable summary of the complicated problem of independent redistricting commissions and the Constitution's Elections Clause("Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for . . . Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"). Howe's penultimate sentence:

[S]upporters of the commission warn the Court that, if voters aren�t allowed to hand responsibility for redistricting over to independent commissions like the ones in Arizona and California, there will be no real way to combat political gerrymandering, which results in �partisanship and dysfunction� in Congress.

Obviously, there's another side to that. The "real way to combat political gerrymandering" could be the way provided for in the text of the Constitution: the legislative process.