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I’ve been saying right along....Win is won by “get out the votes” and pure mathematics.
Does she mean like all the Dem states like California where GOP voters have almost no seats despite voting due to the current gerrymandered CA districts?
This could be a good thing.
The same legal standard they're applying to Utah can be applied to blue states.
That’s the way it works.
To be appealed, overturned, and done.
Current gerrymandered crooked California:
“...Democrats in California won 83% of the seats off 61% of the vote (a pro-Democratic efficiency gap of 11%).”
” Democrats won their three new seats in 2024 by extremely narrow margins. A switch of just 8,833 votes out of 15 million cast statewide would have been enough to reverse the outcomes in all three.”
——Public Policy Institute of California.
Absent McCarthy’s arm-twisting in D.C. and with a powerless superminority in both chambers of the state Legislature, California Republicans appear headed for an era of obsolescence, at least for the next five years.
Proposition 50’s landslide win owes its success in part to the abject failure of a disarrayed No on 50 campaign low on funds and unable to keep up with the Yes side’s deluge of savvy advertising.
-—Local News Bay Area.
If Utah really pass a 2018 law that banned partisan redistricting, and if SLC was carved up into four districts to ensure that all four Utah seats were GOP....
Maybe the judge was right.
And again, the big "if" here was if Utah really did have such a law. I don't know whether or not that is true.
This lady judge will eventually follow the busloads of mini judges getting stuffed. It will take a bit of time in this case.
Only the legislature has that power.
We used to have sensible congressional districts in all 50 states. I believe it was the warren court that changed this. I was quite young at the time so I wasn’t paying a lot of attention but as I recall it was the one man one vote ruling that led to this crazy mess where rural regions basically lost representation to the cities. Somebody might be interested in researching this but at the moment I am disinclined.
State court applying state law, at the lowest level, so no precedential authority even in Utah.
I seem to remember Prop 187 had a landslide also...and IT was 2 years AFTER Clinton opened the flood gates.
Yes. Gerrymandering is one of the things almost all the American people do not want——but they are ignored.
Same as the old cable TV legislation held down where people paid far too much and didn’t want the absurdly low audience channels they had to pay for along with the 20 or so they ever watched. And Congress made the bills higher instead of lower. Lobbyists and cash payoffs were rampant.
And who wants the lousy red light camera computerized ticket systems? Only the cash hungry local places. One camera system company accidentally let a memo out: “Forget Adams intersection at Willow. You won’t make any money there.”
While the crooked politicians pretend “Oh, dear, we’re just looking out for safety.” While people plow into the car ahead of them which suddenly stops midway to try to avoid a camera ticket.
People (except for illegals and criminals on trial in courts) don’t get what they want.
This is textbook how empires fall.
The precedent is in defining who’s been harmed.
She’s not applying any legal principles except she doesn’t like the result.
Hasn’t the Supreme Court said that Federal Courts have no business in state elections or districting.
So this dimbulb judge ruled that partisan gerrymandering is wrong if it favors Republicans, but okie dokie if it favors democrats. What impartial logic!
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