Posted on 05/29/2022 7:46:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
n June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a unanimous U.S. District Court decision that partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Although Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the practice leads to results that “reasonably seem unjust,” he maintained that partisan gerrymandering is a “political question,” beyond the reach of federal courts. Each state, Roberts indicated, should manage its own redistricting process.
Four justices dissented. In an emotional statement, which she read from the bench, Elena Kagan warned, “Left unchecked as the court does today, gerrymanderers like these may irreparably damage our system of government.”
The maps drawn to comply with the population count of the 2020 United States Census demonstrate that partisan gerrymandering — a legal form of vote stealing used by politicians who disregard the political composition of the electorate in their state to ensure they retain power for themselves and their party — is stronger and more resistant to reform than ever.
Republicans, who control a substantial majority of state legislatures, benefit significantly from gerrymandering, netting many seats in local assemblies and senates and 13-18 more members of the House of Representatives. States with Republican legislatures and a Republican governor have doubled down on partisan gerrymandering.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
However, I do think states should have controls so districts follow some kind of normal geographical lines like counties, rivers, etc.
The Hill complaining about a “legal form of vote stealing” but having absolutely NO problem with the ILLEGAL form of vote stealing.
Well Hill, let me give ya a taste of your own medicine:
Complaining about “vote stealing” shows the Hill is a white nationalist organization engaged in an insurrection.
They hate it because it's so transparent.
Huh. Don’t remember them complaining when the ‘rats were doing it
Between 2014 and 2020 partisan Democrat judges discarded Republican maps and mandated partisan Democrat gerrymanders in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina (so much for the “Republican” Supreme Court’s decision) and those gerrymanders ARE THE ONLY REASON why Democrats control the House today.
The rest of the article is basically nothing but lies as well, including the idiotic hyperventilation about the Republicans gaining “13 to 18” seats SOLELY as the result of the most recent redistricting. It’s at most 4 or 5 seats for 2020 and there’s every chance (Florida and Ohio leap to mind) that some Republican maps will not quite last the entire decade and will again be replaced with Democrat gerrymanders at the behest of black-robed tyrants.
Perhaps we can get it right in the 2030’s. 10 years to work on it before the next census. Not counting on it.
The reason people noticed the process of gerrymandering in the first place was that the efforts were nakedly obvious and unsophisticated. How are people going to notice the gerrymandering now that computers can generate geographically compact but carefully delineated districts that have an equally partisan effect but are neither obvious nor unsophisticated.
Well, it was named after a Democrat.
Squirrel!!!
Deep.State is happy to talk about anything other than getting rid of RCV and RCV-enabled voting machines.
Voters rarely care about gerrymandering ... even in their own district
Good post. Rather odd, isn’t it, that there is no mention of the “Mistakes” just recognized last week by the Census Bureau in the 2020 Census. The “mistaken” Census count was used for redistricting, which oddly all favored the Dems and probably stole 4-5 seats from Florida, Texas, North Carolina and other Red States and gave them to grossly overcounted Democratic New York, Illinois, California, and Rhode Island.
Gerrymandering should be removed. Every State should determine districts via computer algorithm to define districts such that:
They are as compact as possible, with minimizing the circumference as priority.
With districts that are weighted 50% based on population and 50% based on land area.
Districts are redrawn every census.
Too easy!
U.S. District Court case are decided by one judge only. So all U.S. District Court decisions are "unanimous." Who knows what this ignoramus was trying to say?
Gerrymandering of Congressional districts in Georgia stems from an unspoken alliance between Republicans, who control the state legislature, and the state’s black caucus which wants four or five “safe” districts. Democrats are given left-leaning districts in metro Atlanta and southwest Georgia, with the rest of the state solidly conservative. The result for the Fall 2022 general election is likely to be a 9-5 or 10-6 split in favor of the Republican Party.
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