re: SCOTUS rules on Callais

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So, I no longer have to have Cleo as my representative?

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Is it constitutional or not? Thats your job.

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Kagan lost it: Section 2 is essentially a "DEAD LETTER"

"The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave."

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We are going have the most beautiful map

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Ok it’s getting confusing to me. Can some one explain how a districting map is supposed to be properly drawn? Is population based and then so many parishes out from an epicenter? Do the shapes of the districts have certain shapes or boundary guidelines to follow?

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minority citizens are going to be cracked out of the process."

I'm not familiar with the term. What does "cracked out of the process" mean?

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Cracking and packing (often combined with or related to stacking) are primary gerrymandering techniques used to manipulate voting districts for partisan or racial advantage.

Cracking splits a voting bloc across multiple districts to dilute its power, while packing concentrates a group into one district to reduce its influence elsewhere.

1. Cracking (Diluting Power) Definition: Splitting a community of interest or political group among multiple districts. Purpose: To make the group a minority in many districts, preventing them from electing their preferred candidates. Example: A city that is heavily Democratic is split into three different districts that are otherwise surrounded by rural Republican voters, ensuring the Democratic vote is never large enough to win any of the three districts.

2. Packing (Concentrating Power) Definition: Consolidating as many of the opposition party’s voters as possible into a few, limited districts. Purpose: To reduce the opposition's voting strength in all other surrounding districts. Example: Concentrating all minority voters in a city into one single district, where they might win with 90% of the vote, rather than having them spread out to win 55% of the vote in two or three districts.

3. Stacking (Combined Submerging) Definition: A form of packing that combines a minority group with a larger, dissimilar population that consistently outvotes them. Purpose: Historically, this often involved creating large, multi-member districts where a concentrated minority population is overwhelmed by a larger, often higher-income or different-race majority. Example: Placing low-income, minority voters in the same district as higher-income voters who turn out at higher rates, thus "stacking" the deck against the minority group's preferred candidate.

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Run on forcing “gerrymandering-free” districts across the entire nation

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and force the dems on voting against it and have them explain why they are against the idea or embrace it and provide more competitive R races in the blue states.

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