National Perspective

Political gamesmanship is a losing proposition

By Peter S. Canellos

Globe Columnist / January 4, 2005

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WASHINGTON -- ''Political gerrymanders are not new to the American scene," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dryly noted near the start of his majority opinion in the 2004 case of Vieth v. Jubelirer. ''One scholar traces them back to the Colony of Pennsylvania at the beginning of the 18th century." (Full article: 824 words)