Justice Sonia Sotomayor then picked up from there. When the GOP used social science methods to devise maps, the group in the locked hotel room ran enough models to know that the first one would not yield the results they wanted. “Your map drawer … started out with the Court plan, they created three or four different maps, they weren’t partisan enough. They created three or four more maps, they weren’t partisan enough. And they finally got to the final map, after maybe 10 different tries of making it more partisan, and they achieved a map that was the most partisan … And it worked. It worked
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