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Yes I always love reading these. Despite all the recent politicking around the SC, I think it remains the least political branch of our government. Many people
by doctoboggan 7y ago
Yes I always love reading these. Despite all the recent politicking around the SC, I think it remains the least political branch of our government.
Many people think the SC's job is to decide what is "good" for our country, but actually that is the Legislative's job. The SC's job is to interpret the law and apply it fairly. The opinion actually says that gerrymandering can reasonably be argued to be unfair, but just that deciding that is IS unfair is not within the realm of the federal courts.
The opinion is well written and I think it was correctly decided. That being said, I do think Gerrymandering is a real problem, but I think it needs to be solved with new laws, not with a SC decision.
- coldpie 7y ago> I think it needs to be solved with new laws Who writes the laws, and how are they selected?
- olliej 7y agoThe people who made the gerrymandered electorates. They got in because they’re a fair representation of the people. Duh. Happily they’ve filled two Supreme Court seats, one by prohibiting a sitting president from getting any nomination through for An entire year [edit to note that both parties in the US do this wherever they have power to]
- Retric 7y agoI think the Supreme Court is the most political body in US. Ideology is at the core of every decision where the executive and legislative bodies have a much wider focus. Politics without elections removes the polite fiction created as everyone tries to look good to the general public.