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SCOTUS: Partisan gerrymandering claims are non-justiciable.
Supreme Court of the United States ^ | 06-27-2019 | John Roberts

Posted on 06/27/2019 7:10:02 AM PDT by TexasGurl24

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Complete destruction for the RATs.
1 posted on 06/27/2019 7:10:02 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: TexasGurl24

Beat you to it.


2 posted on 06/27/2019 7:10:25 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: TexasGurl24

Good.


3 posted on 06/27/2019 7:13:12 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Stravinsky

Maybe so, but this post was much more complete.


4 posted on 06/27/2019 7:13:15 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: TexasGurl24

Wow. This is the biggest victory for federalism that I can think of since before Lincoln.

If a self-governing sovereign state within the mechanism of self-government opts to send a set of people to represent itself to congress, they can!

What a concept!


5 posted on 06/27/2019 7:13:18 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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Time for the Pennsylvania legislature to take up this ruling, bitch slap our own supreme court and redraw the boundaries, maybe with a little straighter lines like the GOP alternative presented about this time last year.

We should be able to flip at least three seats back.

6 posted on 06/27/2019 7:13:41 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: TexasGurl24

5-4 vote; Should have been 7-2 or more


7 posted on 06/27/2019 7:14:27 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: SoConPubbie

I’ll remember to copy/paste like a fool with the next one.


8 posted on 06/27/2019 7:14:39 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: TexasGurl24

Right decision. The Feds have no Constitutional role in telling the States how to allocate their voting districts. Got a problem with gerrymandering? Pressure your state.


9 posted on 06/27/2019 7:14:41 AM PDT by rhombus10
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To: TexasGurl24

Yay.

You know the Rats would only use any ruling to crush all dissent.


10 posted on 06/27/2019 7:14:44 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: TexasGurl24

Not a judicial function..... but, of course, the state courts with leftist majorities ROUTINELY interfere with Congressional districting decisions (e.g., Pennsylvania).


11 posted on 06/27/2019 7:14:50 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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Most corruption is done on the sly. Gerrymandering is corruption right out in the open by both parties.


12 posted on 06/27/2019 7:22:14 AM PDT by lurk
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Good news for us in NC. Look for the Dems to ramp up talk of packing the SC, also good news for us. We need to highlight the authoritarian streak that permeates the Dems.


13 posted on 06/27/2019 7:22:34 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: TexasGurl24

hehehehe!


14 posted on 06/27/2019 7:23:25 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: rb22982

“5-4 vote; Should have been 7-2 or more”

It will be when Ginsberg croaks and Breyer takes leave. If Trump is re-elected, I look for Kagan to be the only Communist left on the SCOTUS at the end of his second term. Sotomayor’s diabetes will sideline her within that timeframe.


15 posted on 06/27/2019 7:25:56 AM PDT by vette6387
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“5-4 vote; Should have been 7-2 or more”

It will be when Ginsberg croaks and Breyer takes leave. If Trump is re-elected, I look for Kagan to be the only Communist left on the SCOTUS at the end of his second term. Sotomayor’s diabetes will sideline her within that timeframe.


16 posted on 06/27/2019 7:25:58 AM PDT by vette6387
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The Supreme Court said that they don’t belong in the middle of this issue. I think that the same logic applies to other courts, “nonpartisan” commissions, the man on the street opinion, and democratic Presidential candidates.

The Constitution leaves this function to the States through their Legislatures. The four Leftie Justices are outraged, they want to exercise their own judgment whenever they don’t agree with the State’s decision. Government by unelected judges.


17 posted on 06/27/2019 7:26:22 AM PDT by centurion316
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5-4, with the Court divided along the usual Conservative/Liberal fault lines.

Here, the Liberals wanted the various Federal Courts to grab ultimate power over voting district assignments. Given that the Dems are the most corrupt, and the first to resort to lawfare, the minority position would have given the Dems a permanent advantage, even if the Courts remained strictly non-partisan (a stretch, IMHO) in the review of each claim.


18 posted on 06/27/2019 7:27:15 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Note this ruling only stops federal courts from imposing a gerrymander. A recent state case had the state Supreme Court draw their own (Demonrat, of course) gerrymander, even though their state’s Constitution gives them no such power. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.


19 posted on 06/27/2019 7:32:29 AM PDT by bIlluminati (Defund the Left. Shrink the U.S. Federal government to 1897 levels.)
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Being a lefty means a court endorsing the principle of separation of powers is ‘undemocratic.’


20 posted on 06/27/2019 7:35:23 AM PDT by relictele
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