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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: New York's highest court strikes down congressional & state Senate maps
Last edited Wed Apr 27, 2022, 03:45 PM - Edit history (1)
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Tickle
(2,514 posts)not good and how do they come up with this?
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)We have to fight as ruthlessly as the Republicans do.
former9thward
(31,981 posts)This is a state court (the highest) making a ruling based on state law. SC only involves itself in cases where there is a federal question of law.
Amishman
(5,555 posts)old article on it when they declined to intervene over PA and NC maps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/supreme-court-voting-maps.html
Bettie
(16,089 posts)I seem to recall that.
In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)question of federal law, the Voting Rights Act . I think.
In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)Step 1: Spend time creating another partisan map that the state court will likely strike down again
Step 2: Spend time defending the new very-gerrymandered map likely ending in the same result
Step 3: Go to the US district court and say we wont be able to make a map fast enough and we have to use the map already passed into law by the legislature or else it will severely negatively impact the citizens right to vote.
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)Polybius
(15,385 posts)brooklynite
(94,502 posts)New York loses a House district. Hence all NYS districts must expand. NY 11 is 100% Staten Island plus a portion of Brooklyn. The only way to expand the district is to add more of Brooklyn. The question is: do you go east (into Bensonhurst) or north (into Sunset Park)?
budkin
(6,699 posts)It's fine for red states but not for blue?
Tickle
(2,514 posts)There are some red states that have been told to redo their districting and they are now going after Florida
In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)overturned the fair maps that Governor Evers (D) put together and reinstated the gerrymandered right wing maps.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)Dems continue to pretend that playing fair works in this era.
In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)if/when it gets there