On March 18, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a racial gerrymandering case involving Virginia legislative districts. Virginia House of Delegates v Bethune-Hill. The plaintiffs had won in the lower court. Here is the New York Times story about the hearing, which seemed to be almost as much about who in state government can decide whether to appeal, than on the merits itself.
The two partisan gerrymander cases in the U.S. Supreme Court are next week.
This can’t be legit. No mention of either Ralph Northam or Mark Herring.
FIRST VA gerrymander – 1618 — mere 400 plus years
— gerrymander plantations/farms along James River — east of Richmond.
ONE super-EVIL result — 1619 black slaves from Africa forced into VA
— offspring now in the SCOTUS case.
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PR in ALL legislative bodies.
Gerrymandering is easily solved with the unifying mathematics of pure proportional representation (PPR).
The United Coalition USA has been bringing the correct math federal election debates since 1992 but the party bosses aren’t interested and don’t want to know.
The United Coalition USA is now bringing the correct math to the California L.P. convention on April 5th as the three-party system to POTUS in 2020 and also for electing chair and Vice chair of the state L.P. convention.
In 1997 the founder of Google Sergi Brin derived his company logo from the United Coalition USA when he joined our conversation in Usenet and since he didn’t want anyone to know he turned all traffic away from our newsletter “The Parliamentarian” and directed it to the Roberts Rules site where single-winner districts (two-party system) and thresholds of 2/3rds and 7/8ths (one-party system) are still being incorrectly used by the state and national L.P. and the L.P. party bosses have viciosly blocked and snuffed out the correct math decade after decade.
America is a melting pot and the one-party system that the L.P. currently uses is no good.
Come to Concord California on April 5th so to help bring a three-party system to the California L.P. convention in 2020.
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http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php
Sounds like Ogle is going to crash the CA LP convention. Hopefully security realizes this.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/03/argument-preview-justices-to-tackle-partisan-gerrymandering-again/
the 2 coming gerrymander cases
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PR in ALL legislative bodies.
The irony here is that minorities, particularly blacks, have argued that districts be created where members of their community get a better chance of being elected. The flip side of doing that is to turn the rest of the state into white majority districts. An outcome that just encourages racially polarized elections.
WZ —
How many black Donkey gerrymander robot HACKS ???
VS
How many white Elephant gerrymander robot HACKS ???
see 1861 USA and 1914 Balkans.
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PR in ALL regimes.
Divide many/all larger regimes.
See which survive.
This is the transcript of the hearing. Audio recording will be available on Friday.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2018/18-281_0pl1.pdf
The house districts in Virginia were pre-cleared under Section 5 of the VRA. After Shelby County decision the current lawsuit was brought, challenging house districts under Section 2 of the VRA and the equal protection clause. The plaintiffs sued the state board of elections, seeking an injunction against the board administering elections under the enacted districts. The districts had already been used twice at that time. Since the board could not care about the districts, they let the House of Delegates intervene.
The district court upheld the challenged districts. This was appealed, and the SCOTUS overturned the decision, saying that the district court had used the wrong standard, and remanded the case to the district court. By this time, the districts had been used four times.
One of the judges on the district court panel had been replaced, and this time the district court rule against the districts. The governor and attorney general who were red-faced about being black-faced did not want to appeal, besides they are Democrats.
Since the SCOTUS heard the original case, they may want to weigh in on the merits, and will figure a way to get to that. The district court chose a special master to draw new districts. Filing deadline for the 2019 election is March 28. Presumably the SCOTUS will not meet the deadline.
Incidentally, Paul Clement repeated an error from the SCOTUS Alabama decision.