Aggressive gerrymandering, regardless which party is engaging in it, is disgusting. It is blatant disenfranchisement and anti-democratic. Congress should pass legislation that mandates house representation that roughly represents the voting proportionality, at the same time they should increase the size of the house and track it's size to population.
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan launched his general election campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, declaring, "I believe in states' rights". The speech, delivered near the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, was seen as a strategic appeal to white Southern voters, often viewed as a "dog-whistle" to those opposing federal civil rights actions.
John Roberts is a racist and a fascist who gave corporations more rights than people and the president criminal immunity. I can't help but laugh at liberals who give fascists the benefit of the doubt. Always works out well historically for y'all.
We are a largely racist country. That is why people love Trump. Not because he is honest but because he allows them to be openly racist again. It is disgusting but it has made it crystal clear to me who the bad actors are in my own sphere. And now I can excise them out of my life. Because life is too short to embrace hate.
I live in TX-35. Greg Casar is a rising star. He holds town halls and automatically calls my phone when they occur so I can listen to them. I love that! He takes live questions and doesn't speak in stupid pre-written sound bytes. He genuinely engages. Love the guy for that alone. I don't always agree with his position on issues, but I perceive him to be an honest broker.
Big fan of the Bulwark, but I seem to recall being dismissive of House Dems to pass legislation to halt some of this nefariousness. I think the argument at the time was the bill contained too many policies and it should be broken into smaller legislation.
“during President Biden's term, congressional Democrats proposed and passed legislation in the House to ban partisan gerrymandering, specifically through the For the People Act of 2021 (H.R. 1). This bill and the subsequent Freedom to Vote Act aimed to mandate independent redistricting commissions, but both failed in the Senate due to filibusters, preventing them from becoming law.”
The big problem here is that the U.S. Supreme Court has not stepped in and did what it should do, declare Jerrimandering unconstitutional. Several years ago, with obvious Republican Jerrimanders in Wisconsin and Democratic Jerrimanders in Maryland, the court had the opportunity to declare the practice unconstitutional, and they punted. This is what we're left with!
Your Republican roots are showing. The 2 parties are not the same. Democrats have created independent commissions, Republicans gerrymander. If the Republicans cheat, which is all they can do, we will now fight. Time to eliminate all Republican districts in blue states and frankly create 2 countries. One will be affluent, science based, take care of its people and the other will be a Christian Iran.
The idea that the Virginia redistricting is unconstitutional is pretty rich, considering that yesterday SCOTUS literally said that partisan redistricting is perfectly legal.
The fact that we consent to be governed/ruled by a child molester President and the Republicans that enable him is beyond pathetic. The Revolution was started over fucking taxes. And, he we are today eating a child molester shit sandwich.
They should make it official and upgrade the presidential limo to a white van.
There are certain things that are just stupid and we should correct. How about a national vote on gerrymandering - it should be related to a school district, -zip code - round - or square. We are tired of corruption and cheating!!! And 18 year limits to SCOTUS.
I love that you took the effort to call everyone out on their hypocrisy. There is a bill in Congress, from Democrats to set rules for redistricting. A lot of time and money could be saved. There should be no relationship between who 'won' a state in a presidential election and how many congressional seats they get.
Maybe we need AI to set up the districts. Simple data in: how many people, how many representatives. Nothing about parties or anything else, strictly population - which is supposedly what the Constitution envisioned. Also, given the sheer number of the people, we need to increase the number of house seats. That 1929 law restricted the number to 435, which was fine in 1929, but we have almost 3 times the population now. Why is this so damn difficult?
Great writing. True investigative journalism. Thanks.
Aggressive gerrymandering, regardless which party is engaging in it, is disgusting. It is blatant disenfranchisement and anti-democratic. Congress should pass legislation that mandates house representation that roughly represents the voting proportionality, at the same time they should increase the size of the house and track it's size to population.
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan launched his general election campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, declaring, "I believe in states' rights". The speech, delivered near the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, was seen as a strategic appeal to white Southern voters, often viewed as a "dog-whistle" to those opposing federal civil rights actions.
John Roberts is a racist and a fascist who gave corporations more rights than people and the president criminal immunity. I can't help but laugh at liberals who give fascists the benefit of the doubt. Always works out well historically for y'all.
We are a largely racist country. That is why people love Trump. Not because he is honest but because he allows them to be openly racist again. It is disgusting but it has made it crystal clear to me who the bad actors are in my own sphere. And now I can excise them out of my life. Because life is too short to embrace hate.
I live in TX-35. Greg Casar is a rising star. He holds town halls and automatically calls my phone when they occur so I can listen to them. I love that! He takes live questions and doesn't speak in stupid pre-written sound bytes. He genuinely engages. Love the guy for that alone. I don't always agree with his position on issues, but I perceive him to be an honest broker.
Big fan of the Bulwark, but I seem to recall being dismissive of House Dems to pass legislation to halt some of this nefariousness. I think the argument at the time was the bill contained too many policies and it should be broken into smaller legislation.
“during President Biden's term, congressional Democrats proposed and passed legislation in the House to ban partisan gerrymandering, specifically through the For the People Act of 2021 (H.R. 1). This bill and the subsequent Freedom to Vote Act aimed to mandate independent redistricting commissions, but both failed in the Senate due to filibusters, preventing them from becoming law.”
Democrats say they want fair districts but must follow rules set by Republicans.
Prove it!
Write a discharge petition for a bill to require non partisan districts.
The big problem here is that the U.S. Supreme Court has not stepped in and did what it should do, declare Jerrimandering unconstitutional. Several years ago, with obvious Republican Jerrimanders in Wisconsin and Democratic Jerrimanders in Maryland, the court had the opportunity to declare the practice unconstitutional, and they punted. This is what we're left with!
Your Republican roots are showing. The 2 parties are not the same. Democrats have created independent commissions, Republicans gerrymander. If the Republicans cheat, which is all they can do, we will now fight. Time to eliminate all Republican districts in blue states and frankly create 2 countries. One will be affluent, science based, take care of its people and the other will be a Christian Iran.
The idea that the Virginia redistricting is unconstitutional is pretty rich, considering that yesterday SCOTUS literally said that partisan redistricting is perfectly legal.
The fact that we consent to be governed/ruled by a child molester President and the Republicans that enable him is beyond pathetic. The Revolution was started over fucking taxes. And, he we are today eating a child molester shit sandwich.
They should make it official and upgrade the presidential limo to a white van.
There are certain things that are just stupid and we should correct. How about a national vote on gerrymandering - it should be related to a school district, -zip code - round - or square. We are tired of corruption and cheating!!! And 18 year limits to SCOTUS.
I love that you took the effort to call everyone out on their hypocrisy. There is a bill in Congress, from Democrats to set rules for redistricting. A lot of time and money could be saved. There should be no relationship between who 'won' a state in a presidential election and how many congressional seats they get.
Republicans are hypocrites. In other news, water is wet.
Maybe we need AI to set up the districts. Simple data in: how many people, how many representatives. Nothing about parties or anything else, strictly population - which is supposedly what the Constitution envisioned. Also, given the sheer number of the people, we need to increase the number of house seats. That 1929 law restricted the number to 435, which was fine in 1929, but we have almost 3 times the population now. Why is this so damn difficult?