Pushing gerrymandering bullshit was always a losing proposition for Democrats because there are more GOP governors than Democrat.
kek, american culture is just lamenting 50 year old movies and not coming up with anything new now. thats awesome.
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It is a losing proposition because dems have already squeezed all they can out of their maps, meanwhile the Republicans haven't even really started playing the game and the SC just gave them the greenlight to go all out.
Same thing just happened to me in the Indian menace thread.
Thankfully it's just a pause on an original ruling. This is a pretty normal thing to do in this case afaict, but maybe one of the more experienced law heads could chime in too.
Gerrymandering is a legal practice, it's just seen as a douchey thing to do. It's harder to accomplish in a purple state, but Florida is no longer a battleground state. The GOP could accomplish this with Georgia and Ohio as well. Democrats always gerrymander their own states, so - as you said - there's nowhere else for them to go with the practice.
But she brat, and that's what really matters.
From what I read it was a temporary stay to preserve the status quo and allow for more briefing.
Not exactly there Johnny, gerrymandering has been around for a long long time. The only thing that has changed lately is the GOP actually seems to want to fight back a little bit.
I was thinking in the contemporary context when I wrote the post, but it's worth pointing out that the practice is old as shit.
I thought it was declared illegal and they had to postpone some early elections to redraw it? Or was that a different State?
In Virgina the issue is that they went about the whole referendum and re-drawing thing in a way which was patently illegal, so the entire vote is invalid.
They just stayed the ruling to give things a chance to play out while the case is heard. They didn’t make a ruling. That will take months.
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A State Judge declared it Illegal about 7 different ways and the VA SC did not let them ratify the vote. So right now in VA it is in a holding pattern with the current map being the law of the land. We need to see what 7 VA SC Judges decided. And even then there are a couple more ways to sure over this (I believe there is a court case ongoing about the language of the vote).
