‘Tragically Wrong’: 6 Brutal Lines from Justice Kagan’s Gerrymandering Dissent

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The Supreme Court just dealt a blow to voting rights in a crucial gerrymandering decision. Here are 6 scathing lines from Justice Elena Kagan’s dissenting opinion

that federal courts have no role to play in striking down politically rigged congressional maps that deny equal representations to citizens of a given state. The court’s majority opinion, responding to two lawsuits challenging gerrymandered maps in Maryland and North Carolina, effectively punted, saying there is no standard to decide such cases.

“The majority’s idea instead seems to be that if we have lived with partisan gerrymanders so long, we will survive. That complacency has no cause. Yes, partisan gerrymandering goes back to the Republic’s earliest days. But big data and modern technology—of just the kind that the mapmakers in North Carolina and Maryland used—make today’s gerrymandering altogether different from the crude line-drawing of the past.

 

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Political parties are corporations, partisan gerrymandering violates antitrust laws competition

Now Rolling Stone knows better than the Supreme Court? What a useless rag!

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1 . supreme court doesnt make laws,congress does . 2 . gerrymandering always been here since founding. where,repeat no where in the U.S . constitution is gerrymandering covered . 3 . decesion is correct,keep courts out of it,let democracy work vote.

The Court of corrupt injustice.

Our system has taken the voice of the People from our government....

Nathan Lane

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So to summarize, anti christ McConnell has hijacked the Supreme Court and our democracy. By all means Kentucky...keep voting for him.

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