Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional (party, elect, government, state)

[heavyweight]

The lawsuit challenging Ohio’s map called it “one of the most egregious gerrymanders in recent history,” one that has reliably done its job by allowing the GOP to capture 75% of the seats by winning a little more than half the state’s votes.

Voters should choose their elected officials. Elected officials should not choose their voters.

Gerrymandering should be unconstitutional but the conservative supreme court will likely uphold it.


AP News, Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional

[tinytrump]

We know that in Fl

[WiseManOnceSaid]

Originally Posted by heavyweight

Voters should choose their elected officials. Elected officials should not choose their voters.

Gerrymandering should be unconstitutional but the conservative supreme court will likely uphold it.


AP News, Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional

It was a democrat after-all who created Jerrymandering...

I think it's a horrible way to pick winners and losers.

[Goodnight]

The republicans have made Gerrymandering into an art form over the last decade, those numbers speak for themselves in Ohio. Yes

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by WiseManOnceSaid

It was a democrat after-all who created Jerrymandering...

I think it's a horrible way to pick winners and losers.

You mean he was a Democratic-Republican.

[Listener2307]

Without gerrymandering, minorities would almost never win a district.
All the crying about the unfairness of gerrymandering will assist America in the destruction of the Democrat party. Good.
House districts represent 700,000 voters each. Ya want nice square districts? .... You ain't gonna like the result.

[ncguy50]

Democrats only whine about Gerrymandering when it doesn't benefit them.

[HeyJude514]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

Without gerrymandering, minorities would almost never win a district.
All the crying about the unfairness of gerrymandering will assist America in the destruction of the Democrat party. Good.

So getting rid of Republican gerrymandering will lead to the destruction of the Democratic party? Is it opposite day again already?

[ncguy50]

Originally Posted by HeyJude514

So getting rid of Republican gerrymandering will lead to the destruction of the Democratic party? Is it opposite day again already?

But keep righteous democrat gerrymandering for the good of the people, eh?

[Oldhag1]

Originally Posted by HeyJude514

So getting rid of Republican gerrymandering will lead to the destruction of the Democratic party? Is it opposite day again already?

Maybe, maybe not. But, the reason gerrymandering was upheld by the courts, and even encouraged, was to give minorities (particularly blacks) greater representation in state and federal level government. Had it not been for gerrymandering Congress would have stayed much whiter than it is - why to do think the House is so much more diverse than the Senate?