1/ This year, millions of voters will cast ballots in districts that have been ruled unconstitutional for excessive gerrymandering.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/millions-of-voters-will-cast-ballots-in-november-in-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered-districts/ …
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6/ In Texas, a federal court found state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against voters of color when drawing the state’s congressional map. Two of those districts have been found to violate the constitution.pic.twitter.com/FbH6zdYn2z
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7/ And Texas lawmakers may have been overzealous in drawing maps for some state-level races, too. Districts for the Texas House of Representatives have been ruled unconstitutional for racial gerrymandering.
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8/ In November, voters in Wisconsin will be casting ballots for their state assembly representatives even though the boundaries for those races have been found unconstitutionally partisan.
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@pemalevy reports, if the party in power wants to gerrymander the districts, there is no downside to doing this. If the maps are overturned, redrawing them often goes right back to the state lawmakers who created them in the first place.Show this thread -
10/ “You see what you can get away with, and even if the maps ultimately get struck down, you may get a free election or two or three or even four out of it,” says
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11/ Even though courts have repeatedly tossed out Republican-drawn electoral maps for excessive gerrymandering, these maps will remain in effect through November, potentially changing who controls Congress and state legislatures for the next two years.
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12/12 Read the full story here:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/millions-of-voters-will-cast-ballots-in-november-in-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered-districts/ …
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That’s right. The Supreme Court has rendered my vote worthless in the 2018 midterms in NC. I thought SCOTUS was supposed to protect my vote?
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Here we go again....
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Why was that order halted? What is the rationale?
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