U.S. Supreme Court Rules 5-4 that Partisan Gerrymandering Does Not Violate the Constitution

Posted on by June 27, 2019

On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering does not violate the Constitution, and dismissed the cases from North Carolina and Maryland. The vote was 5-4. Here is the opinion in the two combined cases, Rucho v Common Cause, 18-422; and Lamone v Benisek, 18-726.

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules 5-4 that Partisan Gerrymandering Does Not Violate the Constitution — 28 Comments

  1. How many seconds to Civil WAR II ???

    See 1857 Dred Scott op

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    Regardless of A—L—L math M-O-R-O-N-S —

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged packed/cracked gerrymander areas

    = 1/4 or less CONTROL = EVIL and VICIOUS ANTI-Democracy minority rule OLIGARCHY.

    Much, much, much worse primary math — super-rotted oligarchs
    — RED Donkey communists and Blue/BLACK Elephant fascists.

    —
    Census Citizen Question op — same math MORONS unable to detect male USA citizen in 14 Amdt, Sec. 2.

    1866 USA Senate worked on 14-2 for many hours in many days —

    1866 folks with ANY brain cells detected that the slave oligarchs had kept their white populations stupid AND denied many of them the RIGHT to vote — getting about 350,000 of them killed as cannon fodder in 1861-1865 Civil WAR I.
    Many northern States had also restricted the right to vote – about 400,000 Union DEAD.

    Too many MORONS to Count – in SCOTUS, Lawyers, Profs, media.
    —
    PR and AppV – now LIFE or Death.

  2. Bit more —

    NO such thing as a *political question*.

    Each act / omission does / does not violate the LAW [at a specific place and time].

    Mere 9 senile SCOTUS robot party APPOINTED hacks–
    about as MORON stupid as the top Brits and French regarding Hitler in 1933-1939.

    NONPARTISAN elections of USA Prezs/VP, Att Gen, Sec State, Marshals, Dist Attys and ALL USA Judges

    — NOW LIFE or DEATH.

  4. The United Coalition USA is bringing the pure proportional representation (PPR) Electoral College, an at-large 539-party system, under the US Constitution.

    It’s new math, where 50% plus one is a simple majority, and all that’s needed to approve decision-making for the team.

    Join the new United Coalition USA, bring your vote to the Unity Platform USA and should there ever be a 50/50 tie to break, your vote can be the one.

    Go Ogle [One] 2020
    The Libertarian One 2020
    https://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-13-totals.php

  5. As I suspected that they would, the Supreme Court has kicked this issue back to the states. It’s probably just as well given that any attempt by the court to decide what constitutes a “good” district would be considered subjective, and an attempt by the court to “make law.”

  6. How many math MORONS on this list ??

    State regimes — full of gerrymander winner HACKS [aka OLIGARCHS] in rigged districts.

    Change districts to be nice/*fair* ??? Yeah sure

    — like asking Jeff Davis and Abe Lincoln to end Civil WAR I in June 1863 just before the Battle at Gettysburg, PA

    — like asking Stalin and Hitler to end the WAR in 1941-1942 between their killer gangs.
    —
    PR and AppV — NOW life or death.

  8. Walter, the Court could have ruled that states must use some sort of neutral procedure, such as an independent non-partisan redistricting commission. That would not have involved deciding what a “good” plan looks like.

  9. AUTOMATIC ANTI-Democracy RESULTS with single member districts —

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged packed/cracked gerrymander areas

    = 1/4 or less CONTROL = EVIL and VICIOUS ANTI-Democracy minority rule OLIGARCHY.

    Such ANTI-Democracy oligarchs enact the UNEQUAL ballot access laws.

    Thus the ANTI-Democracy govts of, by and for the ANTI-Democracy OLIGARCHS continue.

    Some/many States do NOT require *contiguous* districts

    >>> RED Donkey communists may be packed into even fewer REAL political ghetto concentration camp districts.

    See nazis in Poland about walled in Jewish ghetto areas in 1939-1942 — before the *Final Solution* — aka Holocaust 1942-1945.

    PR and AppV — NOW life or death.

  11. @Richard: Then the court would have to describe what a “neutral” procedure would be, and that, too, could be construed as the court “making law” On what constitutional principle would such a “neutral” procedure be based? The Equal Protection clause? There’s nothing there about districting. So, to apply the Equal Protection clause to a new problem is the court “making law.”

  13. The SCOTUS math M-O-R-O-N-S can not detect —

    DEMOCRACY = majority rule — direct or indirect — in legislative body elections.

    They barely can detect the 5-4 math in their JUNK moron ops in all sorts of law cases.

    4-4 RFG – HAVING MAJORITY RULE – DEMOCRACY LEGISLATIVE BODIES IN THE STATES.

    TOO MANY MATH MORONS TO COUNT.

  14. The solution is, of course, proportional representation off a “national list,” or a “state list” for state legislatures, just like most continental European countries do.

    And somebody get Demo Rep his rabies shot, OK?

  15. PR candidates via Voter Nom petits / filing fees

    — NOT some gang boss/bosses picking PR robot hacks as in Europe / Israel.

    ANY math drugs/shots for brain dead math MORONS ??? — esp on this list.

    see 1860 gerrymanders >>> 750,000 plus DEAD in 1861-1866.

  16. Underlying brain ROT —

    AREA *representation* —

    akin to olde Flat Earth morons, olde divine right of Kings morons, etc.

    For NON-MORONS – again —
    in a REAL Democracy — a legislative body exists ONLY because ALL VOTERS/ELECTORS can NOT assemble in person and enact laws by majority rule.

    See various ballot issues — YES majority = passes, NO majority = fails.

    PR and AppV — NOW life or death.

  18. How many times can Demo Rep piss on a post? Twelve, apparently. But I bet there will now be a thirteenth squirt.

  20. @RW,

    Congress could require use of independent commissions, or better yet an independent commission.

    The proper defendents may have been Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.

  22. @ JR: “Independent commissions” are like regulatory agencies: they eventually get taken over by the very people they are supposed to regulate. IMO, a better solution would be to elect a state’s entire Congressional delegation at large with ranked choice voting. The voters would then with their own votes create virtual “districts” for the candidates that they support.

  23. Mere 53 USA Reps in CA — perhaps 1 plus more in 2023 after census case machinations.

    BASIC PR —

    PARTY MEMBERS = TOTAL MEMBERS X PARTY VOTES / TOTAL VOTES.

    DIFFICULT ONLY FOR MATH MORONS – ESP LAWYERS AND SCOTUS HACKS — SEE RUCHO OP.

  25. Besides getting Demo Rep a rabies shot, can somebody hack his computer online to disable his caps lock key from actually doing anything?

  26. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDIR-2018-07-27/pdf/CDIR-2018-07-27.pdf

    USA Rep gerrymander maps in 2016 election in the 50 States.

    Blank check in the Cuckoo Rucho majority op for much worse gerrymander districts in the Nov. 2022 election —
    rashly assuming the USA survives to then.

    Anybody have a brain math shot for the juvenile math M-O-R-O-N-S on this list ???

    Do such juvenile MORONS have the same INCURABLE juvenile genetic PUNK brain ROT as TYRANT TRUMP ???
    Once a PUNK – always a PUNK.

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