even a majority of the court has applied manageable standards in cases involving racial jerry mand jerrymanderring. it has left a category of intentional skrilgs against voters unchecked as long as the discrimination is predicated on the basis of political party and not race. for example, just last year a three-judge district court rejected a challenge to maryland's redistricting plan because the plaintiffs, quote, had not shown that the state moved african-american voters from one district on to another because they were african-americans and not simply because they were democrats. even though the plaintiffs' claim that democratic politic n politicians had drawn district lines to reduce the number of republican-held congressional seats was in the words of the court, quote, the easiest claim to accept factually, unquote. the court declared it the weakest claim legally because the supreme court has declared partisan jerry manderring. i will refrain from repeating the arguments i made in opinion in this topic. they should recognize their responsibility to curtail this insidious practice. the tools f