The court said political map-makers cannot use race as the principal consideration in drawing congressional district boundary lines, but also agreed that using race as one factor could be constitutional.

CNN: AllPolitics - No To Gerrymanders

The New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, widely credited as an important factor in the citywide drop in crime during the Bloomberg administration, will face its biggest constitutional test in a federal trial beginning Monday.

WSJ: Trial Begins Over NYPD's Frisk Policy