Posted on 03/11/2020 6:06:10 AM PDT by Brilliant
Former Attorney General Eric Holder insists that his redistricting lobbying and litigation shop merely wants to make maps less partisan. Responding to our editorial last November on his court redistricting coup, he wrote that he supported “citizens or nonpartisan commissions to draw electoral lines so neither party benefits.” Interesting, then, that he’s not supporting such a reform in Virginia now that Democrats control the Legislature.
Last week Virginia’s House of Delegates voted 54-46 to place a referendum on the November ballot to establish an ostensibly nonpartisan citizen commission to draw legislative and Congressional maps after the 2020 Census. A majority of the General Assembly must vote in two successive sessions to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
Friday was the second vote, and it’s notable that the referendum passed because nine Democrats joined all 45 Republicans. Most Democrats supported the referendum last year while in the minority but did an about-face after winning control in November. All Republicans but one supported the referendum even when they were in the majority.
Many Democratic legislators now say the referendum would give too much power to unelected judges, and they have a point. Maps would be drawn by a 16-member commission composed of eight citizens and eight legislators. But the state Supreme Court would have the final say, and the technocratic design makes us wonder if Pete Buttigieg helped design it...
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There is no such thing as non-partisan!!! Just ask the DOJ...
He’s another one that should have been locked up a looonnnngggg time ago. Whadda POS.
A computer should draw ALL HOUSE DISTRICTS and they should be based on numbers of people only. But the Dems would never allow that because it would eliminate their ‘safe seats’ all over the place. And those seats include the ‘necessary minority districts’ to assure representation of the left’s favorite special interest groups.
Our election in VA was run on maps drawn by a UC Irvine professor at the direction of a federal judge after the Chief Justice said in another case that courts have no business in redistricting.
And PS-Dictricts drawn by JUDGES? Surprised that Republicans support this......giving JUDGES even more power not assigned to them in our laws.
(And PPS-Arizona has a 5 member ‘Redistricting Committee’. Supposed to be 2 Rs, 2 D’s and 1 I. The problem is the I here is actually a Dem. She lied to get on the committee. Now WHO could have foreseen that?)
What the in name only Democratic Party has been doing in gerrymandering remapping has been singling out areas of various districts where it is dominated by a minority and create a single district out of it which not only disrupts those districts affected of getting civic services needs but pits one group against the other. An example of this is in what Chicago did http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm
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