SCOTUS rules on Maryland gerrymander question...

[Digger 68]

Originally Posted by lenora

Oh, my. Do you remember when the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court took the opposite approach in Bush v. Gore? Also a 5-4 decision. It appears the separation of powers, Federal v. State, is also partisan. Just sayin'.



Have the State Courts had the opportunity to address partisan gerrymandering?

I was watching an author on book TV on C-Span last night who wrote a book on Sandra Day O'Connor.

He mentioned this, and gave a pretty good explanation if Bush, and Gore tied. Congress would then vote. The House would get one vote, and the Senate would get one vote. Well that would have been a tie because each chamber was controlled by the opposite party. Then it comes down to the Governor of the state where the tie occurred. Who was the Governor of Florida in 2000? I will give you one guess.

Gore, his wife Tipper, and their moral majority crap 15 years earlier sunk their asses, That and Nader.

So how long would you let the recount go on?

The problem is this box. People can now listen to what they want to hear, or read ONLY!

Even independent of the 96' Telcom Act..............which also helped destroy our media.

So gerrymandering isn't going to change the fact the Pennsylvania went for Trump when they hadn't voted for a republican for president in 28 years. Central Pennsylvania is a prime example of why Trump won, and any place like it.

[slowlane3]

Gerrymandering was actually a referendum question in the 2016 Maryland elections, but Speaker Miller's gang deliberately worded the proposition so vaguely on the ballot, that few voters even understood the question, so they in their ignorance voted to keep it.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by slowlane3

Gerrymandering was actually a referendum question in the 2016 Maryland elections, but Speaker Miller's gang deliberately worded the proposition so vaguely on the ballot, that few voters even understood the question, so they in their ignorance voted to keep it.

Not really. The vote broke down almost exactly on voter registration percentages. It was in 2012.

https://ballotpedia.org/Maryland_Red...estion_5_(2012)

https://elections.maryland.gov/elect..._4_0005S-.html

[MrRational]

I'm thinking about how two kids share the last piece of cake.
Kid #1 does the cutting and Kid #2 does the choosing.
It shouldn't need to be any more complicated than that.

[lenora]

Originally Posted by MrRational

Isn't that how the cases ended up in front of the Supreme's?

No, both were initially presented in US District Courts.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by lenora

No, both were initially presented in US District Courts.

Where they belonged. regardless of the later rulings