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Jay 🏳️‍⚧️
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« on: July 17, 2023, 12:54:44 PM »

The map is a joke and quite clearly doesn't satisfy the court's demand

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Jay 🏳️‍⚧️
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2023, 01:23:47 PM »

The map is a joke and quite clearly doesn't satisfy the court's demand



Sadly almost everywhere this happens and states surrender their first attempt back to the courts. A real weakness of the American system comparatively is parties inability in many different capacities to sit down with a member and say "You are the weakest link" and sacrifice or chastise them to better the whole. In this situation that would be ensuring their membership get their ideal seats while observing the order, rather than letting the dice roll on potential incumbent pairings or loss of desirable features like airports or wealthy donor neighborhoods.

But that's why special masters exist.

Oddly,  this is so hard because our system is more democratic.  Because we have primaries, the candidates are less like an employee of the party and more like a spouse.  They have legitimacy in their own right.

This is why I have to imagine why a map like this was intentional. Best case scenario is that this map gets tied up in the courts until after 2024 and an incumbent survives for an extra cycle, and then a special master draws the map, worst case scenario a special master is assigned immediately but at that point the AL GOP won't have to deal with angry phone calls from one guy they screwed over or whatever
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