Michigan Congressional Map 2012
Posted on 05/13/2019 12:45:18 PM PDT by SMGFan
The court gave the challengers a week to respond to requests from state officials to stop court-ordered redrawing of district lines
The Supreme Court on Monday gave the challengers of congressional maps in Ohio and Michigan until May 20 to respond to requests from state officials to stop court-ordered redrawing of district lines. Lower courts found the maps were partisan gerrymanders, an issue the high court is now considering in two other cases.
Lawmakers and officials in both states had argued that they did not have enough time to comply with recent federal court mandates to redraw their districts by June 14 in Ohio and Aug. 1 in Michigan.
“The court’s order is on the brink of throwing Michigan’s political system into unnecessary chaos,” Gary P. Gordon, counsel for the Michigan Senate, wrote in an affidavit submitted Friday.
New maps, if they were prepared, might have to be drawn again because the Supreme Court is expected to rule in coming weeks about similar cases in Maryland and North Carolina. It heard oral arguments about those states in March and a ruling is expected before the court’s term ends in June.
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been using computers to redistrict for over 30 years. Cannot take too long to crunch the numbers.
Partisan Gerrymandering is only OK when Democrats do it.
See?
Too bad Pennsylvania didn’t go this route. We could have saved the house.
Trump needs his best lawyers in these states, plus Pennsylvania, Florida and Wisconsin.
The attempt at voter fraud will be the worst in history in 2020.
You should only get 5 straight lines to draw district lines ,LOL
Each side calls it ‘gerrymandering’ when the other side does it, and has for nearly two centuries.
There can be no such thing as “NON-partisan gerrymandering”.
A RECTANGLE is the only fair district.
Other schemes are racist.
But rectangles are not necessarily equal in population. So there will always be some distortion in shape and size
Nope.
Rectangles are true and fair.
Republicans and Conservatives are just math illiterate.
At most, up to 5 straight lines ...
The Dems need to worry. They get rid of gerrymandering the Congressional Black Caucus goes away.
wards and districts for polling locations are not rectangles.
need a law saying a major city must not be split 3 ways by a congressional district unless pop requires it. And then when cutting up a city you must be compact. A city not be split if under 600 - 700K in pop.
wards and districts for polling locations are not rectangles.
need a law saying a major city must not be split 3 ways by a congressional district unless pop requires it. And then when cutting up a city you must be compact. A city not be split if under 600 - 700K in pop.
Michigan Congressional Map 2012
Gerrymandering is a political issue. It should be up to the state supreme court. SCOTUS needs to stay out of it.
I’m in the 7th district, just below the 8 on the map.
The very best part of the state.
He's only won in districts gerrymandered to fit a snake like him (see his last 2 below) and in fact his has been called "one of the ten most gerrymandered Congressional Districts in the country"
10th district (2013–present)
8th district (2003-2013)
The way to do this fairly would be to develop a computer program for redistricting well in advance of the next census. Base it strictly on non-political criteria: compactness, contiguity, a preference for respecting existing political subdivisions on the ground (cities, counties, etc.), and some neutral rule about things such as major rivers and mountains. Race should be excluded because race immediately becomes a proxy for political affiliation. The Democrats are attached to minority-majority districts and supermajority districts to provide safe havens for their imbecile caucus, and that practice would have to stop. This is why the Democrats will resist any genuinely neutral redistricting algorithm.
Bottom line: the system should be developed well in advance, accepted by both parties, and then rigorously implemented. No alterations permitted after the politicos have seen how the cookie crumbled.
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