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To: yesthatjallen

When I first read about this, I wondered, “just how much gerrymandering is Constitutional?” Surely no one expects a governing party to draw districts that work against them. I am genuinely curious as to what standards (if any) are being applied. And no, ‘pissing off Liberals’ is not even close to an objective and repeatable standard. We can’t let the minority party have a heckler’s veto.


4 posted on 08/27/2018 6:28:16 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Lysandru

These partisan courts should be abolished. They are more powerful than the other two branches. It’s time to ignore them. They only rule one way.


5 posted on 08/27/2018 6:29:42 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: Lysandru

There are actually computer programs that can draw the most compact set of districts based solely on where people live without any regard to their race or political persuasion or anything else, simply upon where people live.

This would be the most honest, unbiased way to do it, so we know it will never happen.


15 posted on 08/27/2018 6:47:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" height=200><p> zXSEP5Z, xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd,)
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To: Lysandru
Back in the 50s and early 60s, scotus waded into the 14th Amendment to insert itself into the design of legislative districts.

Associate Justice Frankfurter wrote scathing dissents.

Here's one:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr/Dissent_Frankfurter

32 posted on 08/28/2018 7:49:23 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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