The United States is not a democracy it is a republic. Individuals elect representatives that will represent them. Gerrymandering is a result of that republic and both sides do it to help their representation.
"To hold that legislators cannot take partisan interests into account when drawing district lines would essentially countermand the Framers’ decision to entrust districting to political entities.""An expansive standard requiring 'the correction of all election district lines drawn for partisan reasons would commit federal and state courts to unprecedented intervention in the American political process.'"
"What the appellees and dissent seek is an unprecedented expansion of judicial power."
"We have never struck down a partisan gerrymander as unconstitutional—despite various requests over the past 45 years."
"The expansion of judicial authority would not be into just any area of controversy, but into one of the most intensely partisan aspects of American political life.""That intervention would be unlimited in scope and duration—it would recur over and over again around the country with each new round of districting, for state as well as federal representatives."
"Consideration of the impact of today’s ruling on democratic principles cannot ignore the effect of the unelected and politically unaccountable branch of the Federal Government assuming such an extraordinary and unprecedented role."
The normal oscillations of elective politics are the best remedy for districting disputes. The federal judiciary's involvement in them invites the remote possibility of an actual partisan intervention as well as the certain belief of many of the losing side's partisans that an unelected, unfair Court ruled against them, both of which will only increase rancorous partisanship.
There is neither a constitutional command nor democratic requirement that elective politics be perfectly sinusoidal. A variety of districting options are available to States including their empowerment of bipartisan, impartial redistricting commissions.
The day will come when today's complaining factions ascend again to majority power and control of districting.
As it should be, "that's politics."