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To: Alberta's Child

We have seen that in the past, when the furor over “civil rights” and voter discrimination led the courts to oversee congressional districting within states. No evidence it ever helped anything, but gave a lot of shysters job security and protected some democrat congressmen.


12 posted on 05/08/2024 4:37:28 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

“congressional districting”

Districts could be based on last names, they don’t have to be physical.

Legislatures waste too much time and effort on defining districts.


20 posted on 05/08/2024 4:56:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: hinckley buzzard
In those particular situations the court’s involvement has been predicated on very specific applications of Federal civil rights and voting rights laws as they relate to individual voters or groups of voters.

Getting Federal courts involved in general procedural matters in state elections is a giant can of worms that would turn into a complete disaster once or is opened. The Texas 2020 case cited by the author would have established a terrible precedent that would have eventually led to the elimination of state election standards. Even Clarence Thomas admitted that he didn’t think Texas would have prevailed in that case, which made his desire for the Supreme Court to accept the case all the more baffling.

29 posted on 05/08/2024 5:24:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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