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Open thread June 28, 2019

Dan Crawford | June 28, 2019 6:03 am

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  • EMichael says:
    June 28, 2019 at 9:46 am

    Have a nice day, Susan Sarandon.

    “John Roberts Just Finished the Job of Turning American Democracy Into a Charade of Self-Government

    The Supreme Court gerrymandering decision is the final nail in the coffin alongside Citizens United and Shelby County

    Once you’ve legalized bribery and influence-peddling, and declared the Day of Jubilee on which racism had vanished entirely from our election procedures, legalizing gerrymandering is a pretty easy lift. By the customary five-to-four margin, the Supreme Court completed its term by doing exactly that on Thursday. (It also invalidated the citizenship question for this year’s Census, for which it gets merely a muted hoorah, as we shall see in a moment.)

    Throughout the state election cycles of 2010 to 2016, legislatures in several states were gifted with Republican majorities that proceeded to rig their district maps in such a grotesque way as to ensure their survival no matter what inconvenient impulses might arise among the populace to create inconvenient electoral majorities. These states included North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio.”

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28212049/supreme-court-gerrymandering-john-roberts/

  • Bert Schlitz says:
    June 28, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    The gerrymandering happens in many segments and frankly, is a bit overblown. It doesn’t effect as much as you would expect.

  • Joel says:
    June 29, 2019 at 6:50 am

    @Bert,

    I’d love to believe that. Do you have anything to back up your assertion? Or is “as much as you would expect” doing all the work in that post?

  • EMichael says:
    June 29, 2019 at 9:03 am

    Joel,

    He has no idea. The effects of gerrymandering are obvious and well documented.

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