SCOTUS on Texas redistricting

[Mik]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-gives-republicans-a-much-needed-redistricting-win-with-texas-ruling/ar-AA21Q3fw

[taiwan_girl]

Is it now going to be like this going forward? Probably. #sigh

[jon-nyc]

Biannual redistrciting. Yay.

[Horace]

a pyrrhic victory.

[Mik]

Much like Citizens United. Probably constitutionally correct, but bad for the republic.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said:

Probably constitutionally correct, but bad for the republic.

So much for the "Founding Fathers' wisdom."

[Mik]

FFS. That is a giant, unsupported leap. No ne has ever stated the constitutiuon is a perfect document. That's why there's a mechanism to change it.

Founding Fathers 1, Ax 0.

[jon-nyc]

@Axtremus said:

@Mik said:

Probably constitutionally correct, but bad for the republic.

So much for the "Founding Fathers' wisdom."

Well, yes.

Elbridge Gerry, after whom Gerrymandering is named, was a signer of the declaration of independence. As governor of Massachusetts, he approved an odd shaped district to benefit his party in 1812. It looked like a salamander, so they called it the Gerry-mander’. And the name stuck.