Posted on 03/07/2022 7:06:57 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let North Carolina and Pennsylvania use electoral maps approved by state courts to replace ones deemed to have given Republicans unfair advantages, improving Democratic chances of retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.
The justices denied Republican requests to put on hold lower court rulings that adopted court-drawn boundaries for North Carolina's 14 House districts and Pennsylvania's 17 House districts to replace electoral maps devised by Republican-controlled legislatures in the two states.
Republicans are seeking to regain control of the House, narrowly controlled by President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats, in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Party primaries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina are set for May 17.
The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the action concerning North Carolina.
The North Carolina and Pennsylvania disputes are among the numerous court battles nationwide over the composition of electoral districts, which are redrawn each decade to reflect population changes measured in a national census, last taken in 2020.
In most states, such redistricting is done by the party in power, which can lead to map manipulation for partisan gain. The Supreme Court in 2019 barred federal judges from curbing the practice, called partisan gerrymandering.
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Did they mention how they feel about election fraud?
AS IF Republicans are any worse than the Democrats with regard
to this sort of thing.
good luck in pa ****heads
hey joe , shut us down..
Less than impressed with the newest members......
Hopefully, this Democrat gerrymandering will not make any difference!
Will people still vote for Democrats in November - given the mess that Sloe Joe, The Hoe and their criminal cabal have made?
Don’t they understand that a vote for a Democrat is a vote AGAINST America?
That wide Latinx is sure smarter than State Legislatures [dumb as they are on average...].
Thanks a lot, Trump. Two Quislings out of three SCOtUS nominations.
We’ll see what happens longer term:
“… But although the justices declined to intervene now, four justices signaled that they believe the court should soon take up the theory at the center of both cases. Proponents of the theory, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, believe that the Constitution gives state legislatures nearly unfettered authority to write the rules for federal elections, with little or no oversight from state courts. A majority of the Supreme Court has never endorsed that theory, and some election-law experts say that, if adopted, it could effectively strip state courts of their power to protect voting rights under state constitutions….
… The justices denied the Pennsylvania Republicans’ request in a simple two-sentence order. They left open, however, the possibility that the case could return to the court in the not-too-distant future, noting that the case had been referred to a three-judge district court, and that either side could “exercise their right to appeal from an order of that court” granting or denying temporary relief.”
So the frat boy and hyphenated name female screwed us?
Kavanaugh and Barrett SUCK!!!!!!
From Klaus Schwab’s mouth to their ears. Nothing stops the Great Reset. Nothing.
It’s clear that SCOTUS has decided that they don’t want to touch gerrymandering and are going to leave it up the state courts altogether.
Also, I had no idea that John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Barrett are part of a 6-3 Conservative majority.
Apparently they had no idea of that either.
It really makes no sense to that State Supreme Courts should be deciding the district boundaries. If so, there are plenty of State Supreme Courts held by Republicans..
“Hopefully, this Democrat gerrymandering will not make any difference!”
And hopefully this will come to bite the Democrats in the A$$ once the tables are turned.
3-1-2-1-2
From Left to right.
Amy Conehead Barrett, rapey boy Kavenaugh and Homo “Malta” Roberts stuck it to American freedom once again!
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