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Fellow Conservative peer and former cabinet minister Lord Forsyth of Drumlean accused Labour of "a disgraceful piece of political gerrymandering" aimed at "weakening the scrutiny" of the government.

Independent redistricting commissions increase public participation, reduce gerrymandering and draw districts that represent communities, not individual politicians’ interests.

Winning control of those bodies gave the GOP the power to draw more district lines and allowed the party to enact partisan gerrymanders in states like Texas and Utah.

Bill Yeomans, a former Justice Department prosecutor and counsel to the former Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., told Salon that the court has “been quite vigorous in applying that doctrine in racial gerrymandering cases, for example.”

At the same time, her campaign said the audio leak scandal showed that De León was “conspiring to gerrymander districts to dilute Black voting power.”