Posted on 02/25/2022 3:20:51 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block a congressional redistricting plan that state judges drew this week, initiating a last-ditch effort to derail a map that likely would give Democrats another seat on Capitol Hill in 2023.
GOP legislative leaders argue that the boundaries — which replaced a map that the legislature approved earlier this month — violate the U.S. Constitution. Candidate filing under the map began Thursday and continues through next week.
Since the Constitution allows state lawmakers to determine the manner of U.S. House elections, the panel of three state judges overstepped its authority in adopting boundaries that weren’t set by the state House and Senate, an attorney for the Republican leaders wrote. The state Supreme Court also allowed the adopted map to be used.
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I think a well written letter, something Republicans excel at, will do the trick.
Ridiculous to think that judges should be able to draw the maps. Of course, that doesn't mean the Supreme Court majority will consider the Constitution.
I thought SCOTUS already decided legislators could do virtually anything when it came to gerrymandering.
This exact same thing happened in Pennsylvania. The Republican legislature rightfully and legally drew up the maps, then 6 rat “judges” in the PA state court decided to overrule the maps and create submit own. The PA legislature took it to the US Supreme Court where scumbag Roberts turned them down. The rats were able to steal 5 congressional seats from the GOP.
Republicans just bent over and took it up to wazoo again just like in 2018 in PA, which is another state — like Ohio and North Carolina — where the Republican legislature ostensibly controlled the redistricting process but found out in the end that they actually controlled not a damn thing, and Democrat judges unconstitutionally steamrolled them yet again.
This really shouldn’t be news to anyone who has been paying attention in recent years.... but, but, but the Supreme Court will surely save us this time!!!!
We caught our one and only break this cycle when the Supremes smacked down some Alabama racists who were trying to Screw Whitey out of another seat in the House (John Roberts sided with the Democrats as he usually does). I wouldn’t rely on any more rulings that actually uphold the law.
It would be very disturbing if North Carolina Republicans don't argue how federal Republican lawmakers addressed this voting integrity concern in 1967.
To begin with, patriots are reminded that post-Civil War Republican majority federal constitutional lawmakers had made Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A) to penalize any state that weakens the voting power of qualified citizen voters in any way. The main concern of Section 2 was to discourage the Democratic-controlled majority of post-Civil War Southern States from weakening the votes of freedmen.
"14th Amendment, Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced [emphasis added] in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
Astonishingly, as if today's elite desperate Democrats never got the message about Section 2 of 14A, Republican federal lawmakers made the following legislation based on Section 2 in 1967. Republicans recognized the potential for rigging (my word) voting district maps as a backdoor for weakening voting power, and used their 14A powers to mandate single-member House districts to help prevent Democrats from diluting the electoral power of African Americans with strategically drawn, multi-member districts.
"On Dec 14, 1967, single-member House districts were mandated by law (2 U.S. Code §2c), under the justification that they served as bulwarks against southern Democrats diluting the electoral power of African Americans by using strategically drawn at-large multi-member districts (they could, for instance, create a single statewide multi-member district elected by plurality vote, all but guaranteeing the white majority would elect all Democrats)." —Single-member district
In other words, given that Democratic judges are allegedly tampering with voting district maps as much as elite desperate Democrats are alleged to have rigged the 2020 elections, given the "in any way abridged" wording of 14A Section 2, “we” may now have the following situation.
In addition to taking House seats away from renegade states, we may also need to remove corrupt Democratic judges from the bench under Section 3 of 14A for "in any way abridging," ignoring the intent of 1967 law in this example, weakening the voting rights of qualified citizen voters by tampering with voting district maps.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof [emphases added]. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
It seems that elite political descendants of the Civil War Southern States are slowly but surely trying to flip the outcome of that war.
Finally, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Corrections, insights welcome.
One way we can help begin to rectify our situation is to get rid of the Apportionment Act of 1929 and the 435 member congressional cap. This was not what the founders had in mind and, as our population grows, the disconnect between Washington and the people will grow ever wider.
Agreed that 700,000+:1 is a ratio the Founders would have found absurd. Unfortunately 435 is already too big for a deliberative body.
Nothing fails like success.
So I don’t think Roberts would have the final say—he could issue a stay pending review by the full court, and four justices would be needed to decide to review the case. Don’t know how much that time lapse would affect the case.
The Supreme Court forbid federal courts from changing legislative redistricting but hasn’t ruled on state courts.
NBD!
Our communist masters know that the Aamerican sheeple will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Get used to it or do something significant about it...
Grow a forelock to tug....
It’s a state matter so the U.S. Supreme Court should keep out of it.
It’s a matter of what it says in the US Constitution as to who has the authority to draw the maps.
Where does the Constitution give that to the federal government?
Where does the Constitution give that to the federal government?
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