Posted on 05/24/2019 12:41:59 PM PDT by rdl6989
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked lower court rulings that invalidated, as partisan gerrymanders, Ohio’s map for congressional districts and Michigan’s maps for congressional and state legislative districts.
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No, temporarily is not the key word here. The key word is blocked because if there wasn’t a likelihood of this being overturned the lower court would not have been blocked.
Why is it ‘redistricting’ when Democrats do it, but ‘gerrymandering’ when Republicans do it?...............
It’s only political gerrymandering when Republicans do it.
1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
A proper ruling would be that this is strictly a legislative matter and should never been brought to court.
It’s all gerrymandering and it should be 100% legal for all sides. It’s in teh constitution.
That was my first thought as well. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it was the State Supreme Court involved in PA not a lower federal court. Maybe it’s a jurisdiction issue?
Temporarily until they rule on it.
Very good sign.
What an awesome week.
May gone.
Trump orders declassification.
Botoxic caught in a drunken/mentally retarded speech.
Four judges confirmed.
Now this.
Good News...
and someone here on FR told us this was coming.
Hopefully they find Michigan’s new ‘redistricting’ board unconstitutional too. Nothing but a Democrat run gerrymandering scheme.
Gerrymandering is a long tradition, not just when the GOP is in charge. Tennessee Democrats had our district run from Memphis along a single highway, past Jackson, part of Clarksville and just outside of Nashville. Don Sundquist represented this district when I cast my first vote!
Yes that would be good.
Correction: Robin Beard, not Sundquist. He came next..
The Democrats here in Florida shot themselves in the foot the last time they were in charge of the redistricting, back after the 90 census, IIRC.
They created ‘minority’ districts where the voters were practically all black. They were even taken to court by the Republicans over it. One district was so narrow at one point that someone remarked you could drive down the center of it with both car doors open and kill everyone in the district. But it stood.
The idea was to get ‘permanent’ (D) control over those districts, and they succeeded.
But the Law of Unintended Consequences kicked in.
By filtering out black voters from adjacent districts to create these Minority Districts, they diluted the Democrat voters in those districts they took the black voters from.
This was painfully obvious to them the next election when the Republicans too over the State Legislature and most Congressional Districts.
So, the Democrats figured that when the 2000 census was in, the Republicans would get rid of these 99.99% Democrat districts when they had the chance.
They didn’t................................
You forgot Nadler passing out in his chair.
That comes later when someone challenges one of the state laws.
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