UncleSam
Sr. Member
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« on: November 30, 2021, 05:25:49 PM » |
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Partisan fairness should never ever be considered by the judiciary. That’s just asking for judges to gerrymander in place of state legislators.
The courts should enforce compactness, not splitting counties / municipalities, and complying with the VRA. Otherwise any redistricting decisions made by the courts should be on a strictly national basis.
PS commissions and fair redistricting laws should also be illegal if they’re applied to individual states. The only result of these farces is that Dems get hamstrung in places like VA while Rs gerrymander the living sh**t out of NC or ignore these laws in OH. Even in places where they might benefit Ds like MT the only outcome is basically that you take the power out of the duly elected legislature and put it into randomly selected citizens’ hands, which feels blatantly unfair.
Let Ds and Rs gerrymander to their hearts’ content until there’s enough traction to finally get something passed on a national scale that fixes this ridiculous system and turns things over to the computers.
Here’s hoping NY and CA are so vicious that they get Rs’ attention and force them to the table.
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