A judge says that a Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution.
Draw a single unconditional map, you lose the right to draw it and it goes to an independent group who’ll do it properly.
Don’t give these fascists another chance when they do something unconstitutional.
Draw a single unconditional map, you lose the right to draw it and it goes to an independent group who’ll do it properly.
Needs to be enforced by an independent party, and as we saw in Ohio, the GOP will just go, “Nah, we think we’ll keep it.”
Let me keep track of the most recent gerrymandering rulings: Republican maps violate constitution. Republican maps violate constitution. Republican maps violate constitution.
Outcome: Republicans re-submit maps that violate the constitution.
Judiciary: Well, it’s close to an election, we can’t make them change it now.
Ad nauseum.
The state SC said that in Ohio, but the GOP ignored them,and the state SC took their balls off, and did nothing about it.
Yeah, state GOPs are figuring out that if they just ignore their state supreme courts, the two outcomes are: the opposition appeals to the federal Supreme Court with the same, or worse, outcome, or… nothing.
The states that can are at least addressing gerrymandering through ballot initiatives and state constitutional amendments. Ohio is on track for this. Ohioans shot down the attempts at undermining their ballot initiative process, and are now attempting to get a citizen redistricting commission on the 2024 ballot. We’ll see how it goes.
Our SC could have had their own maps drawn and forced Ohio to use it, but they put their balls in their desks.
Yeah, I just assume the Ohio SC assumed if they drew their own maps they would be immediately challenged and have it go to Federal, and didn’t want to risk their decision being overturned or something.
Either way, as a Michigander, I’m actually rooting for you guys. Our newly created commission made maps for last election and it was nice that the votes actually mattered this time.
I wasn’t crazy about our amendment to fix gerrymandering last time, I thought it was flawed and exploitable. There was a lot of people who said it didn’t go far enough. Turns out that sentiment was correct. We should be getting a chance to fix that soon. I know a signature drive has already been completed but I forget what is on the new attempt.
For more context in this article as well, the judge Lee Marsh was appointed by Rick Scott, a Republican
So, they took a page out of Alabama’s “Modern Jim Crow” map. Sigh. I’m afraid we (as I am an Alabamian) will use it to bring to SCOTUS to strike down whats left of the Voting Rights Act. If only the “email lady” had won in 2016, we would have a scotus that would actually DO something about this gerrymandering and VRA shenanigan nonsense.
The best quote for this situation comes from the video game character QBert: “$#@!”.
Just change the constitution until it fits their needs…
Oh no. /s
