Interesting case.
Of course, we know both parties do gerrymandering.
Ideally, congressional districts would be drawn so as to be as geographically compact as possible, regardless of which types of voters are inside the boundaries.
But, neither party draws the boundaries in this manner.
I think some states have non-partisan redistricting commissions which draw district lines. Having a non-partisan group, or even using computer technology to draw district lines so as to be equal in population and geographically compact, may be the best we can hope for.
However, nowadays, most republicans are white, and a large number of democrats are black. So, republican vs. democrat is now becoming black vs. white. So, if the Republican gerrymander to their advantage, it's racism. If democrats do it, everything is OK.
"Maryland is maybe the worst in terms of gerrymandered states," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that filed a brief supporting Shapiro's position. "It really is an outlier."
The word maybe is an understatement and I hope the SCOTUS makes the correct decision and allows for the lines to be redrawn.
A case from Houston that goes to SC is that districts are mad up of PEOPLE, but that means a city were illegals exist by 2-1 over suburbs ha an advantage in people but not voters. Since the congress in about one man one vote, should not the count be based upon eligible voters not body count?
We are going through this again in Florida. When the Republican controlled House and Senate were tasked with redistricting because of having added two new seats, they redistricted Alan West and Sandy Adams out of their seats. Two of the firebrand freshmen who did not take the establishments crap. But they essentially left alone the snake-like districts of Alcee Hastings and Corrine! Brown alone.
The Florida Supreme Court got involved and ordered the legislature to go over specifically her district again. The Two houses could not agree on a plan and now a mediation Judge will decide. The big problem is that yet another non-establishment Republican, Daniel Webster, looks to be redistricted out.
Then we have people on this site that believe Rubio is a possible attraction for the POTUS? He and his friends in the legislature lied to us from their hearts and they are doing it again.
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No. Common Cause is a leftist group trying to masquerade as concerned citizens. They are barely cloaked bolsheviks.
Good.
A ballot initiative asked voters to approve the redistricting. It asked voters to vote for or against redistricting in accord with the laws of the state of Maryland. Nowhere did people see a picture of the map so, in ignorance of the actual situation for most people, it passed. Of course the Democrats encouraged people to vote for the initiative. Dems sure do know how to hide the real meaning behind their flowery words.
I hope everyone is aware that the current run of GOP dominance in the House is due to packing D voters into a minority of districts.
The 2020 redistricting will be a big political fight.
We could see a rapid reversal of GOP control of the House after redistricting.
This isn’t being discussed much by conservatives, but it should be, because the only thing stopping the left from running completely wild — a GOP House with enough dissidents to block GOPe scheming on some issues — has it’s foundation built on sand.
The next census will be conducted in 2020, and the next election with full redistricting in accordance with those data will occur in 2022. During that period the electorate will be increasingly divided be between Republican (or a Conservative Party) and Democrats along racial and urban lines. Whites are fleeing the Democrats and the Urban core. The Democrats have Blacks and are importing illegal immigrants to maintain their advantage in voter registration.
Blacks and these recent immigrants will be increasing compacted into urban cores. While these areas will invariably be controlled by Democrats, they will have such a large Democrat margin that Democrats will continue to lose ground in the rest of the country, rural, small towns, and suburban areas. The only solution for Democrats is for redistricting along the Maryland model. Radiate districts from the urban core to the surrounding rural and suburban zones, keeping Democrat majorities in each of them.
Compact districts not only allow us to choose a representative who will be influenced by their constituencies, but Conservatives, who are still in a majority in this country, will be more represented in the Congress.
Sorry, but in modern America, citizens don’t get to choose their representatives. Rather, representatives select their constituencies through re-districting.
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