Baloney. The true meaning of the facts here is that the power of incumbency is stronger than ever, more gerrymandered districts, more $$ backing incumbents, etc.
The US Supreme Court really blew it when they found term limit legislation to be unconstitutional.
The US Supreme Court really blew it when they found term limit legislation to be unconstitutional.
"Yeah the Supreme Court screwed up...again. Every state has the right to decide how it will give out its Congressional votes. The Constitutiona gives the reapportionment powers and so forth completely to the states. Not a word about the Feds being able to regulate it. The Constitution does set minimum requirements on Congressman, but it never says that each individual state cannot add its own additional requirements tailored to the desires of the people of the state. Let the states experiment with different methods of apportionment or restrictions on their own representatives and if they work other states can follow suit. If term limits turn out to be a bad idea then the individual states can hammer out the problems themselves.
Indeed! I didn't even realize that they had.