Posted on 06/18/2018 8:08:14 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a decision on when partisan gerrymandering goes too far, ruling against the challengers of a Republican-drawn map in Wisconsin and a Democratic redistricting in Maryland.
The decisions in the separate cases once again puts off a decision on when courts can find that partisan efforts to keep parties in power goes so far as to be unconstitutional.
It was a technical resolution of what has seemed to hold the promise of being a landmark decision about whether extreme efforts to give one party advantage over another were unconstitutional.
While the court routinely polices the drawing of electoral maps to combat racial gerrymandering, it has never found that partisan eforts went too far. It has never settled on a test that judges could use to determine how much politics was too much.
There is a pending challenge of North Carolina’s redistricting efforts that could provide another case for the justices to consider the issue.
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Good news!!
Which was even worse, given the lawless Democrat PA Supremes.
The Maryland gerrymandering should be struck down. Our side should have at least 3 of the 8 seats. Of course, the damage was done with their failure to stop the theft of 5 House seats in PA by the lawless Democrat-Fascist court.
Better both suits dismissed than both upheld.
As much as I’d to see Maryland gerrymandering overturned if that would be used as precedent to mess with GOP maps in the states we control it would not be worth it.
SCOTUS remanding for lack of standing not only makes it more difficult for RATs to assert a colorable claim of injury based on redistricting plans that “underrepresent” the RATs when looking at it statewide, it also buys us time for either Justice Kennedy to retire or for Mother Nature to create a vacancy in a Leftist-held seat that President Trump will fill with a conservative who will be the fifth vote to put an end to lawsuits claiming political gerrymandering once and for all.
As for the MD redistricing map, it is a travesty, but thee’s nothing unconstitutional about it. Let the RATs gerrymander MD to their heart’s content, so long as we get to do it in all of those states that we control; we’ll come out ahead by a few dozen seats.
Not sure if this sites bias.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/symposium-no-closer-to-consensus/#more-271445
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