U.S. Supreme Court Remands Wisconsin Political Gerrymandering Case Back to Lower Court

Posted on by June 18, 2018

On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Wisconsin voters who filed a lawsuit against the state’s partisan gerrymander for legislature lack standing. But instead of dismissing the case, the Court sent it back to the lower court, to see if the plaintiffs could amend their lawsuit and try again. Gill v Whitford, 16-1161.

The decision says “The right to vote is individual and personal in nature”, quoting from a 1964 opinion, Reynolds v Sims, which was one of the “one person, one vote” decisions. The Gill decision says that the Wisconsin plaintiffs argued that, as Democrats, they are injured by the partisan legislative gerrymander. But the Gill decision says that voters can only sue over their own individual legal interest. They can only complain about the particular district that each one of them inhabits; they can’t complain about the partisan outcome for the entire state. They will be given a chance to show how they are injured, relative to the outcome in their own district.

The Court’s statement that the right to vote is individual and personal in nature should strength pending and future ballot access cases, especially in states in which write-ins are banned.

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U.S. Supreme Court Remands Wisconsin Political Gerrymandering Case Back to Lower Court — 17 Comments

  1. The Stone Age/Dark Age minority rule gerrymanders continue — directly due to the SCOTUS HACKS —

    who get appointed by minority rule gerrymander HACK Prezs — via the HACKS in the USA severe minority rule gerrymander Senate.

    The SCOTUS MORONS apparently never heard of *class actions* = sum of individual injuries = class injuries — esp. statewide class injuries.

    The SCOTUS morons and ALL profs can not apparently detect —

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged districts = 1/4 or less CONTROL

    IE 25 control 75.

    REAL primary math — about 5 to 15 control 95 to 85.

    —
    PR and Appv —

    now esp including the USA ELECTION of SCOTUS judges — to get less appointed HACK MORONS on SCOTUS.

  3. The RETARD HACK MORONS in Gill also failed to note that in the 1964 gerrymander cases the various gerrymander districts STATEWIDE had major unequal populations —

    ie the plaintiffs in high population / UNDER-represented districts were injured individually AND as a class.

    ONE more display of SCOTUS TOTAL incompetence — the 9 MORONS can barely detect that 5 is more than 4.

    IN the 2011-2018 gerrymanders —

    IF Elephants control the gerrymander —
    Donkey winners routinely have above average winning votes
    — due to PACKED Donkey concentration camps
    — except in ghetto districts having lots of illegal foreign invaders.

  8. @DR,

    I disagree with your interpretation of the 1960s reapportionment decisions. Read ‘Reynolds v Sims’ and its companion cases. They all have a line about the plaintiffs being from a more populous county or area. Mr. Sims was from Jefferson County, then, as now the most populous county in the state.

  9. Repeat-

    ie the plaintiffs in high population / UNDER-represented districts were injured individually AND as a class.

  10. http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/results/2016/fall-general

    2016 WI State Rep – 99 gerrymander districts —

    for folks having grade 3 sorting, adding and dividing math skills —

    WAY beyond ALL the ZERO IQ math morons in the Gill case.

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged districts = 1/4 or less CONTROL.

    Elephant low 50/99 minority rule / OLIGARCHY percentage = X percent.

    Solve for X.

    About the same X in ALL gerrymander regimes — since 1964 SCOTUS cases.

  12. @DR,

    Point to specific language in ‘Reynolds v Sims’ or its companion cases where there is reference to a class of individuals (other than the fact that individuals were injured by living in overpopulated districts).

    Whitford was not injured.

  13. ALL the language in SCOTUS JUNK opinions is JUNK — NOT worth quoting —

    esp. BASIC stuff NOT brought up by the MORON lawyers and super-MORON SCOTUS hacks.
    —

    https://ballotpedia.org/Efficiency_gap

    updated to include the 2018 Gill DISASTER JUNK opinion.
    —
    WI STATE REPS – NOV 2016 ELECTION

    99 PACK/CRACK GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS – POLITICAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS

    VOTES PCT

    909,661 *30.6 50 LOW R WIN – 7 NO D

    347,354 11.7 14 R HIGH WIN – 14 NO D

    1,257,015 42.2 64 R WIN – 21 NO D

    701,197 23.6 35 D WIN – 28 NO R

    1,958,212 65.8 99 WIN – 49 NO D/R

    80,276 2.7 7 R LOSE

    474,582 15.9 43 D LOSE

    74,101 2.5 OTHER LOSE+SCAT

    628,959 21.1 ALL LOSE

    2,587,171 86.9 SUBTOTAL

    388,979 13.1 NONVOTES

    2,976,150 100.0 PRESIDENT VOTES

    * ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE PERCENT

    MEMO

    1,337,291 44.9 71 R – 28 NO D

    1,175,779 39.5 78 D – 21 NO R

    DATA –

    http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/results/2016/fall-general

    2016 Fall General Election Results
    Wisconsin Elections Commission

    —
    SAME ABOUT 30 PCT MINORITY RULE MATH IN ALL MAJOR GOVTS IN THE USA — USA, State, Local.
    —-
    2018 Gill = 1857 Dred Scott

    See 1860 gerrymanders >>> Civil WAR I in 1861-1865.

    The USA is NOW in Civil WAR II mode — due to the gerrymander math MORONS in SCOTUS.

  14. For folks with Democracy brain cells —

    A State/Local legislative body exists ONLY because ALL the Voters can NOT appear in person and vote on bills, etc.

    The DARK AGE fixation with AREAS regarding legislative representation continues —

    akin to the occult old flat earth stuff and occult Mother Earth is center of universe and much worse super-occult divine right of kings notion.

    Thus – the daily INSANE retrograde mania for ALL POWERFUL killer executives (since the major legislative bodies in the USA are ALL UN-representative) —

    See the latest KILLER in the Oval Office — how many dead THUS FAR with his undeclared acts of WAR inside foreign regimes ???

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