Republicans Set to Lose Multiple Seats Due to Supreme Court Ruling
The Republicans could lose several seats in the House of Representatives due to a surprise Supreme Court ruling which will create a new Black majority district in Alabama, according to a new study.
On Thursday the Supreme Court backed a lower court's ruling, by five votes to four, which found the districts drawn up by the state violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits "discrimination on the basis of race" in the electoral process. Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, both widely regarded as conservatives, voted with the court's three liberal members to deliver the result.
Every state needs an independent, nonpartisan, redistricting commission like Michigan just added.
It is an inherent conflict of interest to let the people who's jobs depend on the maps draw the maps, that's something the citizens should handle directly.
Alternative title: Republicans currently overrepresented in the House due to illegal and immoral gerrymandering
Seriously the bias of this headline is insane. It makes it sound like republicans are the victims and losing seats.
The accurate headline would be like, "Seats stolen by Republicans must be returned after supreme court ruling"
It's almost as if the Republicans have a tough time winning when the maps are drawn fairly.
Sadly the republicans long ago subscribed to an "ends justify the means" system of governing, so they are happy to cheat, lie, steal, etc. They believe they are the righteous people, and therefore whatever is good for them, by definition is good. If they were outnumbered 1000 to 1 they'd still be more than happy to subjugate the 99.9% of the population to their will.
On other news:
Republican Group To Run Blistering Anti-Trump Ad On Fox News During Prime Time
A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump is giving some of the former president’s biggest supporters an unfiltered look at the charges against him.
The Republican Accountability Project said its latest video will air on Fox News during prime time on Tuesday, after Trump is arraigned on 37 federal charges in Florida.
Sometimes I'm still amazed at how comprehensively the Republican party embraced Donald Trump in such a short time. Obviously they would strongly support him while he was president, but they literally threw away all their policy goals in favour of whatever he and his fans wanted, and ostracized anyone who dared to question him.
Now that he's an electoral liability, the most anyone in the party seems able to do is to quietly suggest that maybe they should consider moving on, and launch the equivalent of a leaflet drop behind enemy lines in hopes of convincing a few voters to join them.
What was once the party establishment is now a fringe resistance movement, and I don't think they stand a chance.
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