• loie@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      If Barack Obama

      Told California Democrats

      To gerrymander their map so he wouldn’t lose the House

      Conservatives would have lost their goddamned minds.

      (Again.)

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        3 months ago

        Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white …

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        3 months ago

        I remember when new Mexico a strong blue state gerrymandering and even though we a Lil guy republican cried and cried but we just said we playing by your rules fuck faces

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      Congressional maps have always been redrawn by the party in power to ensure that they remain in power. I would expect Democrats to be doing the same thing if we were talking about California.

      Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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      AFAIK it’s not enshrined in the Constitution, it’s a Supreme Court ruling that said federal courts have no authority to assess cases of gerrymandering.