He also signed on to a bipartisan amicus brief last fall that argued against partisan gerrymandering in the Wisconsin case Gill v. Whitford, which is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, also signed on to it. "Extreme partisan gerrymandering is undemocratic, and cannot be reconciled with the Framers' idea of a House of Representatives that would be directly accountable to the people through competitive and broad-based elections," it reads.