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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (1572491)11/19/2025 3:37:33 PM
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CJ,
While I agree that partisan gerrymandering needs to be ruled unconstitutional and undemocratic, that'd be awkward with the present court. In Trump's first administration, they decided that it was too difficult to decide the issue, so the court had no say as to partisan gerrymandering.
That's right. It's not an area that the Supreme Court really wants to wander into. They'd rather leave the districting to the states, even if it's corrupt as hell, because they don't want the federal government setting too many rules here.

I really don't know how that jibes with the history of gerrymandering, especially with the Deep South's history in disenfranchising minority voters. I guess some might consider it a return to the Jim Crow era, while others might consider an overreaching federal government to be the greater of two evils.

One thing is for sure, though. The party of "states rights" has largely given up their whole "states rights" ideology in favor of centralized authoritarianism. That ironically might pave the way toward some federal action against gerrymandering.

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