The ruling allows states to redistrict along party lines to benefit the party in power. The courts ruling also allows states to redistrict at anytime instead of every ten years.Then these pricks turn around and say we -- those of us who might justifiably be disturbed by what's going on -- "hate America." So let me put it this way: I despise these people and everything they stand for, and particularly for what they're doing to my country.
And if they succeed in codifying this vision for our nation -- the one-party state, the government-controlled media, the undercurrent of fear of fear itself -- and call it America, then they'll be right... for once.
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and which people would that be, the Dems or the GOP?
Fact is, gerrymandering is a meataxe wielded equally by statehouse whores of either political stripe. Don't think Dems have done similar types of stunts to benefit their own? Think again. All the DeLayers did was discover that there was no reason NOT to redistrict(well, that and they were one redistricting behind anyway, so it would not have made a diff.) and nothing preventing them by law. Fact is, there was NO LAW.
But I am with ya, Face. There oughta be a law (federal, preferably) that restricts redistricting to once every ten years. Makes sense, since states with population growth can't get another house seat until the tenth anniversary anyway. Taking the Texas redistricting example to its extreme will prove disastrous as states will redistrict every time the state house balance changes (or not, considering how often they don't change).
But the most pernicious effect, to wield political power, has always been spoils to the state house victors, and boy have they always wielded it.
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