From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertrand.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we talked with Paul Marino from Hillsdale's History Department about the Supreme

Court's recent ruling on jurymandering and historic rulings on the topic.

Roger Robinson from the Prague Security Studies Institute on China and

Economic Warfare. And from Hillsdale's English Department, Lorraine Murphy joins us again for

her ongoing series on Jane Austen. Today we look at Pride and Prejudice. First,

joined now by Dr. Paul Marino, William and Bernie Scrooock chair in constitutional history,

Professor of History, and Dean of Social Sciences here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Marino, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for being in the show, Scott.

We'll talk today. Just recently we had a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on partisan gerrymandering,

and we'll get to that sort of in the tail end of our conversation,

but I also want to look back at the previous rulings on both racial and partisan gerrymandering

from the U.S. Supreme Court. And we start with Westbury v. Sanders. This is a case in which the

court held that the constitutionality of congressional districts was a

question that could be decided by the courts, in essence, giving themselves the power to step in

in some of these questions.

Yeah, that's absolutely.

Maybe one of the most important steps towards the kind of judicial supremacy that I think

our constitutional system suffers from today.

Before the 1960s, Baker v. Carr was the first case where

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