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To: Lakeside Granny

It’s a Slick Willie appointee, so, can’t be great.....

Found this....

Detroit — Michigan must redraw legislative and congressional districts for the 2020 election because current maps drawn by Republicans represent a political gerrymander “of historical proportions,” a three-judge federal panel ruled Thursday.

The blockbuster ruling requires Michigan to conduct special state Senate elections for certain seats next year, cutting in half the four-year terms that current lawmakers are now serving.

The “predominate purpose” of the redistricting plan approved by the GOP-led Legislature in 2011 “was to subordinate the interests of Democratic voters and entrench Republicans in power,” said the unanimous decision written by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Eric Clay, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton.

“Therefore, the enacted plan constitutes a durable partisan gerrymander.”

The panel is giving the Republican-led House and Senate until Aug. 1 to redraw the maps and get them signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The judges said they want all the parties and processes used in the redistricting process to be made public, including any alternative plans that the Legislature rejects.....

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/25/michigan-gerrymandering/3576663002/


2,105 posted on 04/25/2019 1:13:25 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Thanks, Jane.

So not good for pubbies.

The dims get away with gerrymandering all the time.


2,110 posted on 04/25/2019 1:22:51 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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