Gerrymandering Cases Highlight Need for State, Federal 'Blue Waves' in Both 2018 AND 2020

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An entire new decade of government control hangs in the balance...

Decennial elections

Progressive must come to understand during the 2020 election cycle that which the mega-billionaire Koch brothers understood when they undertook to fund the "Tea Party" movement in 2010 --- the first year in which unlimited corporate campaign contributions had been unleashed as a result of the January 2010 Citizens United decision.

During decennial elections, state races (legislative offices and governorships) can have a more lasting political impact than a single Presidential election because they coincide with the decennial U.S. Census, as mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The Census triggers a decennial reapportionment of U.S. House and state legislative districts.

In a majority of states, one-party political control of the legislative and executive branches of state government carries with it the power to draw up state legislative and Congressional district maps. It is a prescription for partisan political opportunism that 13 states have now wisely avoided by placing the power to draw up new district maps exclusively in the hands of independent redistricting commissions.

Entrenchment

For the American Right, a decennial election offers an opportunity for entrenchment --- an anti-democracy means to rig the rules of the game so as to assure Republican control within a given state --- and the U.S. House along with it --- over the coming decade.

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