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WTF Republicans? Some want to get rid of gerrymandering
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:21 pm
A long list of prominent Republicans is urging the Supreme Court to find that extreme partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, saying the practice of drawing electoral lines to benefit one party or another is detrimental to democracy.
It puts those Republicans on opposing sides from groups such as the Republican National Committee and the party’s congressional campaign committee, which are supporting Wisconsin’s GOP-led legislature in a major high court case to be heard next month.
A lower court found lawmakers drew maps that so favored Republican candidates that they violated the constitutional right of equal protection.
Now, Republicans such as former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the party’s former presidential nominee Robert Dole have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs that say the Supreme Court should find — for the first time — that a redistricting plan is so politically biased it must be thrown out.
gerrymandering is good for Republicans and they want to get rid of it?
It puts those Republicans on opposing sides from groups such as the Republican National Committee and the party’s congressional campaign committee, which are supporting Wisconsin’s GOP-led legislature in a major high court case to be heard next month.
A lower court found lawmakers drew maps that so favored Republican candidates that they violated the constitutional right of equal protection.
Now, Republicans such as former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the party’s former presidential nominee Robert Dole have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs that say the Supreme Court should find — for the first time — that a redistricting plan is so politically biased it must be thrown out.
gerrymandering is good for Republicans and they want to get rid of it?
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Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:22 pm to hsfolk
IF this means we can get rid of majority minority districts too it will actually help Republicans.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:23 pm to hsfolk
What will the CBC have to say?
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:23 pm to hsfolk
I am in favor of ending gerrymandering and mandated majority minority districts. Both are impediments to democracy and fair representation, partisanship and federal overreach be damned.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:24 pm to hsfolk
The idea that Gerrymandering was something Democrats actually had a problem with has been some of the best Kabuki theater in the history of politics.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:25 pm to hsfolk
I am OK with eliminating partisan gerrymandering (well, let's be honest it will never go away; but we can reduce it some).
But I want it done legislatively. The idea that there is some constitutional protections for party representation is just nuts.
But I want it done legislatively. The idea that there is some constitutional protections for party representation is just nuts.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:26 pm to hsfolk
You know who the biggest beneficiaries of gerrymandering are? Black politicians in the Deep South. They have insured Democratic minority representation in every Deep South state from SC to LA by drawing one or two districts that have a 70-80% black population, but leave all other seats to be won by Republicans in overwhelmingly white districts.
If there is a problem with gerrymandering, look no further than corrupt black politicians and their enablers.
If there is a problem with gerrymandering, look no further than corrupt black politicians and their enablers.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:27 pm to hsfolk
Hahaha
Who exactly will draw these new "nonpartisan" districts?
Who exactly will draw these new "nonpartisan" districts?
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:27 pm to hsfolk
maybe because it's one of the biggest problems in politics today. it has lead to the shite show we call the republican party. for 8 years in their gerrymandered districts the only thing they had to do to get re elected was to say Obama was a socialist Muslim and that if elected to congress they would vote against anything he wanted to get done.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:27 pm to BigJim
I don't think the SCOTUS will even do anything about it since there is no clean way of doing it without eliminating political bias
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:28 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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IF this means we can get rid of majority minority districts too it will actually help Republicans.
Yeah, on one of my visits back home to Monroe a few years back I noticed that a district Monroe was in had beenredrawn. It stretched from somewhere around Baton Rouge, up the east side of the state along the Miss. river and then over to Monroe and ending somewhere closer to Shreveport than to Monroe.
Nuff said.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:55 pm to ScottFowler
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What will the CBC have to say?
Something stupid and beyond their own comprehension as usual.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:57 pm to hsfolk
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saying the practice of drawing electoral lines to benefit one party or another is detrimental to democracy.
they aren't wrong.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 1:59 pm to hawkeye007
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WTF Republicans? Some want to get rid of gerrymandering by hawkeye007maybe because it's one of the biggest problems in politics today. it has lead to the shite show we call the republican party. for 8 years in their gerrymandered districts the only thing they had to do to get re elected was to say Obama was a socialist Muslim and that if elected to congress they would vote against anything he wanted to get done
Yep. There's one.
A liberal who actually thinks Democrats oppose gerrymandering when in fact, it's THEIR baby.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:01 pm to ShortyRob
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Yep. There's one.
A liberal who actually thinks Democrats oppose gerrymandering when in fact, it's THEIR baby.
Gerrymandering is bad for both sides and needs to go.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:03 pm to asurob1
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Gerrymandering is bad for both sides and needs to go.
I've always opposed it.
I just find the rhetoric from the left on it comical given that they want absolutely ZERO part of being rid of it and..........I'm old enough to remember when you were called a racist.....BY THE LEFT.......if you opposed gerrymandering.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:05 pm to asurob1
Non-competitive congressional districts are the reason why many in Congress have no spine. They don't have to because they represent a safe district where winning a primary means winning a general election.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:14 pm to Homesick Tiger
You're right. Democrats started the Gerrymandering to get Black Districts. The result was all other districts became white and Republican. I know, I was there when it happened. I told them, but, they wanted an all black district for themselves. It happens all over the country.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:19 pm to ScottFowler
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What will the CBC have to say?
There won't be one
Posted on 9/7/17 at 2:25 pm to hsfolk
I agree. Go to a simple grid pattern and leave it at that.
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