Court strikes down North Carolina congressional map as unconstitutional

The Hill ^ | 08/27/18 | Lydia Wheeler

[plain talk]

But if computer generated, then nobody could complain that a partisan human being drew the district lines.

What about a partisan computer programmer?

[lastchance]

Yeppers. By hook or by crook. Just not by fair elections.

[flamberge]

But if computer generated, then nobody could complain that a partisan human being drew the district lines.

That would make a good cover story to explain the results.

But those computer algorithms are designed by human beings with their own sets of biases and intentions. And technology firms who could deploy such programs are distinctly biased in favor of Socialist Governments.

Computer-generated results of any sort that can affect public policy must be subjected to rigorous, transparent examination and testing before they can be trusted as "unbiased".

[marktwain]

Exactly.

That is precisely what happened in Arizona.

Here they used the fiction of a “non-partisan” commission.

Only the commission was packed with Democrat partisans.

[KC_Conspirator]

Achtung! They have spoken.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Irb was right, they are black robed gangsters.

[CurlyDave]

With the elections coming up so fast, and the speed at which most legal things move, could we get an at-large election for all of the Representatives?

This would mean a Republican sweep.

[WASCWatch]

This is the current map. Hard to see how it could be drawn any better than this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/NorthCarolina2016USHouseDistricts.png/400px-NorthCarolina2016USHouseDistricts.png

[Trump20162020]

Appeal again.

Get it to the new Supreme Court with Kavanaugh on it.

Dem activist judges lose again.

[Forty-Niner]

“It is only allowed when the Democrats do it”

California is a case in point.

I lived in a strong Republican District. It was broken up into pieces 2 went into Democr5at leaning Districts that are blue, blue, blue! the other piece went to a strong red district that remains RED......Net effect we lost 1 red district and any chance that the other two would ever go red was lost.....The Dems have already done the “keep counting votes til ya win” trick twice now!!

[GOP Poet]

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[Jacquerie]

Back in the 50s and early 60s, scotus waded into the 14th Amendment to insert itself into the design of legislative districts.

Associate Justice Frankfurter wrote scathing dissents.

Here's one:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr/Dissent_Frankfurter

[Lysandru]

Good find. I was just telling my mother that I suspected that the 14th Amendment was the relevant item.

[Impy]

God-***********ing damn it.

Haven’t they re-done it 6 times already?

What’s this BS I heard about delaying the election? The constitution sets the GD election date.

I read the Constitution and I can’t find “The black vote needs to be spread out enough to help the democrats” ANYWHERE in there. Is it in the section with the “right to choose” and the right to anal sex?

[SMGFan]

Current North Carolina Map Can be Used in 2018, Court Rules

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/north-carolina-map-gerrymander-2018