Posted on 06/29/2015 8:21:22 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Arizonas voters were entitled to try to make the process of drawing congressional district lines less partisan.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision. She was joined by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
The case, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, No. 13-1314, concerned an independent commission created by Arizona voters in 2000. About a dozen states have experimented with redistricting commissions that have varying degrees of independence from the state legislatures, which ordinarily draw election maps. Arizonas commission is most similar to Californias.
The Arizona commission has five members, with two chosen by Republican lawmakers and two by Democratic lawmakers. The final member is chosen by the other four. Republican lawmakers have complained that the commissions latest efforts favored Democrats.
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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.
Yeah, it's weird right? It's almost like he doesn't think we'll remember what he said 3 days ago!
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.
HA!! I think you’re on to something!
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.
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.
The reasons that this ruling are a detriment to the Republic should be abundantly clear.
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