Supreme Court Upholds Creation of Arizona Redistricting Commission

NYT ^ | 07/29/2015 | Adam Liptak

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah I rad the decision too and you are HANDS DOWN ON POINT about the irony of that. I don’t see how he reconciles those two.

GOOD catch on your part.

[zeugma]

I don’t see how he reconciles those two.

Yeah, it's weird right? It's almost like he doesn't think we'll remember what he said 3 days ago!

[Cheerio]

What makes anyone think these commissions want be partisan. Who decides who sits in these commissions?? REALLY non partisan. HAHAHAHA!!! Can you tell I am skeptical??<

Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:23 PM
Arizona’s redrawn political map is still sparking controversy, even after the first election using it has been settled.

The results, particularly in the U.S. House races, have added fuel to complaints that the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission was rigged to favor Democrats. Others, however, point to close races in three toss-up districts as an indication that the commission did a balanced job.

All three toss-up House races went for Democrats. As a result, the state’s delegation to Washington will be led 5-4 by a rare Democratic majority.
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“Part of the great scam that was committed on the Arizona voters is not only were these districts designed to perform Democrat, the future growth in population was also very carefully designed to keep it that way,” Schweikert said.

Arizona’s senior Democratic congressmen also said the maps were drawn in ways that benefited Democrats.

[Desertaz]

Arizona’s been 55% R / 45% D in popular votes for a while and the current congressional representation is 5R / 4D.

That’s about as close to the right numbers as you can get. Of course that can always change next election cycle.

[RIghtwardHo]

HA!! I think you’re on to something!

[manc]

what is the point of the court anymore. Every decision nearly is based on politics?

Obama could order all border patrol to stand down and welcome illegals, order the illegals to take food stamps and all Americans will lose their job for the federal Govt to be replaced by illegals and still this curt will rule the usual way.

[PermaRag]

In the 2012 election, the first to be used under the new district maps, Republicans held only 4 of the 9 districts despite taking 54% of the two-party vote — now, that’s a partisan Rat gerrymander.

In the “landslide” Republican election of 2014, CD #2 did flip the right direction and the delegation is now 5R/4D as you noted.

But the so-called non-partisan redistricting commission, in actuality controlled by Democrats, created 4 hyper-Republican districts, 2 solid Rat districts, and — their crowning achievement — 3 marginal districts (1, 2 and 9) which although marginal *clearly* favor the bad guys.

An unbiased commission would have created an easy 5/4 split for the Republicans and a map created by a Republican legislature could have made it 6-3 (or at least 5R/3D and 1 marginal favoring R) with only a small amount of creativity in drawing the lines.

[brothers4thID]

The reasons that this ruling are a detriment to the Republic should be abundantly clear.