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Which court? The supreme court rules that gerrymandering is 100% AOK by them so long as it isn't done for the express purpose of racial disenfranchisement. Ge
by tasty_freeze 6y ago
Which court? The supreme court rules that gerrymandering is 100% AOK by them so long as it isn't done for the express purpose of racial disenfranchisement.
Gerrymandering to warp democracy and give the members of your party more power than members of the other party are OK, according to our current supreme court.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/partisan-gerrymandering-supreme-court/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/partisan-gerrymander...
- munk-a 6y agoEven the racial disenfranchisement line has been significantly weakened - there have been cases going up with clearly racially biased districts but so long as there is some other property the districts could have been gerrymandered based on (i.e. "Urbaness") then the courts have let it through. Right now, anything goes (and the fact that gerrymandering with the explicit intention of entrenching a political party isn't illegal is bonkers).