Good News -- U.S. Supreme Court Denies GOP Requests To Block New Congressional Maps in NC & PN

[RIP U.S. Democracy]

The bad news is the new GOP-created Texas Congressional map is still in effect. Unless the Texas map is changed, the Democrats are going to have a major uphill battle to hang onto Congress.

The fascist Republican Party believes in states' rights...until the state's judicial system rules against them, as they did in N. Carolina and Pennsylvania. And also in Ohio a few weeks ago.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused requests from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block new congressional maps approved by courts in those states, meaning the fall elections will be held in districts more favorable to Democrats than the ones created by the GOP-led legislatures.

North Carolina’s Republican leaders had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to embrace an unprecedented theory that the state’s judiciary could not impose a new map for congressional elections, even though it found the legislature’s version had violated the state’s guarantee of free and fair elections. The U.S. Constitution, they argued, leaves that question in the hands of the legislature, not courts.

The majority that declined the GOP-led requests did not explain its reasoning, which is often the case in emergency petitions before the court.

Three of the court’s dissenting conservatives — Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch — said that they would have intervened, that they thought the theory advanced by the challengers was probably correct and that they are eager to consider such a challenge.

Another conservative, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, expressed interest, too. But he said it was too close to the May 17 primaries to take up the North Carolina case now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/07/supreme-court-congressional-maps/

 

[Ginger Ale]

TX is a piece of work.

There border sign should say, "Welcome to the Twilight Zone"

 

[RIP U.S. Democracy]

TX is a piece of work.

There border sign should say, "Welcome to the Twilight Zone"

Mexico won the Mexican-American War -- they were able to dump Texas.

 

[d0gbreath]

We shouldn't be the butt of all jokes, but the Gerrymandered districts in my home state could be used in an abstract art exhibit.