Tea Party sues for "right" to redistrict Kentucky themselves

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I swear I am not making this up...

http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20130426/NEWS010802/304260159/N-Ky-residents-sue-redistricting

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I agree that districts should be as equally sized as possible. If the map fails to do that, then it should be thrown out, regardless of what party benefits from that.

The problem here is that the Tea Party wants to draw the map themselves.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The fact that the legislature didn't do its job doesn't give the Tea Party the "right" to draw the new map. If the legislature keeps sitting on its hands, a nonpartisan panel - not the Tea Party - should draw the map.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

As an example look at the congressional map battle in IL in the 90's. The R's sued for lack of a map that passed the legislature and provided a map that they drew. The D's offered an alternative map that was not as good at creating a Latino majority district, nor as equal in population, nor any better at preserving any communities of interest. The judge decided against appointing a special master and selected the R map for the state.

Then that judge must have been some Republican hack.