Currently, Trump is openly calling for Republicans lead states to explicitly gerrymander their congressional districts, and it’s being allowed by both Congress and the Supreme Court. At the same time, Virginia had a popularly passed set of congressional district maps struck down by the very same court.
Quite literally, every branch of government is putting their thumb on the scale for trump. Every branch of the government is corrupt beyond repair, and needs to be removed and restructred in such a way that this can never happen again.
The thing about a gerrymander is that it can backfire, you’re diluting votes of both your opponents and your supporters. If you get the ratios wrong, or say, lose a lot of support from the less committed side of your base, then the gerrymandered district goes to the opposition.
At the same time, Virginia had a popularly passed set of congressional district maps struck down by the very same court.
I believe it was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court, was appealed, but hasn’t gone to the US Supreme Court yet.
Actually, never mind, I just looked and apparently on 5/15, the US Supreme Court declined to take the case. So yeah, they didn’t “strike it down” per se, but the outcome is essentially the same.
Currently, Trump is openly calling for Republicans lead states to explicitly gerrymander their congressional districts, and it’s being allowed by both Congress and the Supreme Court. At the same time, Virginia had a popularly passed set of congressional district maps struck down by the very same court.
Quite literally, every branch of government is putting their thumb on the scale for trump. Every branch of the government is corrupt beyond repair, and needs to be removed and restructred in such a way that this can never happen again.
The thing about a gerrymander is that it can backfire, you’re diluting votes of both your opponents and your supporters. If you get the ratios wrong, or say, lose a lot of support from the less committed side of your base, then the gerrymandered district goes to the opposition.
I believe it was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court, was appealed, but hasn’t gone to the US Supreme Court yet.
Actually, never mind, I just looked and apparently on 5/15, the US Supreme Court declined to take the case. So yeah, they didn’t “strike it down” per se, but the outcome is essentially the same.
I fucking hate this shit.