The Supreme Court sinks a Republican gerrymander in Virginia

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg led the court’s majority opinion against racially biased gerrymandering in Virginia

the justices to do something they have never done: impose a limit on political parties’ efforts to entrench power by drawing district lines that guarantee them a lopsided proportion of seats in Congress or in state legislatures. The Virginia case concerns racial gerrymandering, the practice of unconstitutionally moving voters in and out of districts based on their race, which the Supreme Court has policed for decades.

In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito explained why the House of Delegates has the right to sue. It should “really go without saying”, he wrote, that changes to an electoral map “have an important impact on the overall work of the body”. If it were not for the significant effects redrawn districts have on “the composition of a legislature” and “the things that a legislature does”, legislators would not take such pains in “drawing, contesting and defending districting plans”.

But by signing onto Justice Alito’s dissent, the chief will have a hard time writing or joining an opinion in

 

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this makes me want to vomit

Gerrymandering should be done by non partisan redistricting commissions not political parties.

Now look at Maryland.

CommittoVote Picture proof w/ time stamp, please.

May she live forever

We need to embalm or clone her or something. She is a national treasure.

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