2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Missouri

[MaxQue]

What about Rucho v. Common Cause? Federal courts don’t get involved in partisan gerrymandering cases. I only looked at partisanship. I didn’t care to look at anything else.

Look up the Voting Rights Act.

[MaxQue]

and we have our first GOP dissenter against the map:

https://twitter.com/BillEigel/status/1477409700903800836

How many people do you think he speaks for, likely?

He is from St Charles, so he most likely upset that it doesn't create a path for a primary in MO-2é

[MaxQue]

Wait so why isn't the legislature just passing the 7-1 map? What's there to lose?

Because most of the legislature does not want to cave in to angry idiot far-right caucus members for a sh**tty unfair map.

Lol so the Republicans won't gerrymander out of concerns over fairness even though Democrats are doing it in Illinois and New York? Lmao they're giving away seats for nothing.

Republicans aren’t worried about the unfairness, they’re worried about the sh**ttiness.

How is it a bad map for them if it guarantees them 7 congressional seats?

It probably messes up the primary risk and what counties people want to or don’t want to represent. And some of them may not want a less Republican seat even if it’s unlikely to flip.

It's pretty silly nevertheless. Giving up a whole new Safe Republican seat to make sure your R+30 seat doesn't turn into R+20.

Also, there is a big feud between most of the Republican caucus and the so-called "Conservative Caucus", so it also about trying to keep members of latter out of Congress (where they could use their influence against the current leadership and in favor of the Conservative Caucus).

It's like some of the Midwest states where the party is split in 2 wings that absolutely hate each other.