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OF course this should have gone the other way. You can tell by the partisan hacks on the court who voted for this that this is not good.
My Az. congressional district is so gerrymandered that it is about 2 blocks wide and 300 miles long. It snakes across the state like a drunken rattler hitting every known dumbocrat stronghold.
“CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, with whom JUSTICE SCALIA, JUSTICE THOMAS, and JUSTICE ALITO join, dissenting.
Just over a century ago, Arizona became the second State in the Union to ratify the Seventeenth Amendment. That Amendment transferred power to choose United States Senators from “the Legislature” of each State, Art. I, §3, to “the people thereof.” The Amendment re- sulted from an arduous, decades-long campaign in which reformers across the country worked hard to garner ap- proval from Congress and three-quarters of the States.
What chumps!
Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”? “
Must be frustrating to have 4 justices that do whatever they want and one that does whatever he feels.
The Democrats pulled a fast one with this. The AZ voters approved the plan, sponsored by Republicans based on the idea of fairness.
A third of the commission was to be Republican, a third Democrat, and a third “Independent”. But the Democrats changed their party affiliation to Independent, so now two thirds of the commission is Democrat, in a majority Republican state.
And the commission gerrymanders like crazy to take power from the Republicans and give it to the Democrats.
Andrew Cuomo wants NY to have such a “non-partisan” redistricting commission. Yippee.
The reasons that this ruling are a detriment to the Republic should be abundantly clear.