New PA Maps In Effect

[GeorgiaModerate]

How about updating the thread title?

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Since SCOTUS denied the stay, isn't that the end of it?  Or could they petition for a stay on some other grounds?

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Some fun in order to help bring down the tensions a bit in this thread:

Pizzamandering!

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This news cannot be accurate because the Governor's Decision is Safe Approval in my Ratings.

what

He's mocking King Lear

Quite well, too.

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Now why didn't a Democratic Supreme Court draw a Democratic-favored map here? What a wasted opportunity.

How about, they were trying to draw a fairer map that's more in the interest of the people of the state as a whole?  You know, what courts are supposed to do?

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Lamb would probably beat Rothfus.

Saccone is going to be a short-lived congressman. He's not beating Doyle.

Trump won the new 14th by 30 points - if Saccone wins the special, that seat is his. Doyle almost certainly runs in the new 18th.

Saccone's home will be in Doyle's 14. Unless he moves to the new 14 (old 18th) he's BTFO. The new PA17 (old 12th) voted for Trump by just a 3 point margin. Lamb would beat Rothfus.

You don't need to live in a district to represent it.

You kind of have to.

This came up a lot in the GA-6 special election because Jon Ossoff actually lived in GA-5, just outside the boundaries of the 6th.  Some research by the Washington Post (cited here in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) showed that there were at least 20 current Representatives who lived outside their districts, generally due to cases where a shift of district lines had moved an incumbent to a different district.

Incidentally, if Ossoff had won, it appears that there would have been three sitting Congressmen living in John Lewis's GA-5.  In addition to Lewis, David Scott (GA-13) is also registered to vote in the 5th.

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PA Department of State in the process of implementing the new maps: http://www.media.pa.gov/Pages/State-Details.aspx?newsid=263

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It's pretty obvious King Lear either has no idea what he is talking about and/or is trying to bait people into responding to nonsense.

King Lear might have been prone to concern trolling nonsense in the past, but the Penn. GOP (including Toomey) have all called for impeachment proceedings. It's happening, and the map will be invalidated. The best thing for the Dems to do now is to take the sore losering and turn it into success in the ballot this fall.

Removing them from office would not automatically invalidate their decisions.

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Funny: the GOP stay application is apparently so sloppy that it cites Nate Cohn as "Note Cohen".  https://twitter.com/adambonin/status/966493150763274240

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The 3-judge panel denied Republican request to immediately block the new map and bring back the old one.

The chances of this getting anywhere for Republicans is like 0.00000000000001%, and I'm being pretty generous. 

"So you're saying there's a chance."

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The map is DOA.

https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/967091731429670912

The 3-judge panel denied Republican request to immediately block the new map and bring back the old one.

I guess its raining in NOVA again...

Andrew found dead in NOVA rain

'Cause it's hard to hold a candle in the cold NOVAmber rain...

Congratulations sir, you win the thread!

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PAGOP fails at life:

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/975782584570572814

Someone check in on krazen and limoliberal

Wasn't King Lear also certain that this court would overturn the maps?

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Unanimous decision by three Republican judges.
Let's see how PA GOP spins that.

They were corrupted by the Deep State?

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I have great doubts this actually goes anywhere.

I would not put it past Republicans do actually do it. They've made it quite clear they dont believe in free and fair elections or the rule of law.

That may be true of some, but certainly not all.  Republicans (or Democrats, or independents) are not all of the same mind, and it's only fooling oneself to assume that they are.  I agree with TimTurner that this won't go anywhere.