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> in 2019, the US supreme court said for the first time that there were no federal limits on how severely politicians could draw districts to give their party a
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> in 2019, the US supreme court said for the first time that there were no federal limits on how severely politicians could draw districts to give their party a political advantage, a practice called gerrymandering.
I still wish the SCOTUS had taken the view that the Guarantee Clause[0] necessarily implies that voters should choose their representatives, rather than the representatives choosing their voters.
Or perhaps they did base their ruling on that clause, but the conservative majority decided that "a Republican Form of Government" meant something else...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarantee_Clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarantee_Clause