Gerrymandering is not new. It has now just been brought out in the open. I do not see a solution. Talk of a "non-partisan" commission is impossible as eventually that would become political. SCOTUS has ruled redistricting is a political action. Going forwards domestic migration will determine how states are districts are drawn.
A possible solution not often talked about is removing the cap on representatives.
On this date, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons
Removing the cap would reduce the affects of gerrymandering. It wouldn't outright solve the problem, though. The cap isn't something required by the constitution, instead it was passed via law freezing the number of reps based on the 1910 census
Gerrymandering is not new. It has now just been brought out in the open. I do not see a solution. Talk of a "non-partisan" commission is impossible as eventually that would become political. SCOTUS has ruled redistricting is a political action. Going forwards domestic migration will determine how states are districts are drawn.
A possible solution not often talked about is removing the cap on representatives.
On this date, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons
Removing the cap would reduce the affects of gerrymandering. It wouldn't outright solve the problem, though. The cap isn't something required by the constitution, instead it was passed via law freezing the number of reps based on the 1910 census
Possible. However, politicians will never voluntarily reduce their influence.
Gerrymandering has never been secret, but the GQP has taken it to an extreme after recent censuses. It also was limited to every 10 years. Uber-corrupt and undemocratic MAGA is now changing that.
Nonpartisan commissions are working just fine in CA and elsewhere, and obviously are less political than partisan redistricting.
SoupySales is making excuses and playing helpless for what he knows is unpatriotic and just wrong. That's how The MAGA Cult rolls.
Lament the murder, not the murdered.
1312. ETTD. 86 47.
Gerrymandering has never been secret, but the GQP has taken it to an extreme after recent censuses. It also was limited to every 10 years. Uber-corrupt and undemocratic MAGA is now changing that.
Nonpartisan commissions are working just fine in CA and elsewhere, and obviously are less political than partisan redistricting.
SoupySales is making excuses and playing helpless for what he knows is unpatriotic and just wrong. That's how The MAGA Cult rolls.
Personally, I've long opposed gerrymandering and have as long as I can remember advocated for letting the statisticians and data geeks do the districting and take politics out of it. It's a reasonable, feasible thing to do and should be supported by all parties.
I also favour reasonable gun laws and would vote for much tighter controls on who can have what types of guns as well as creating liabilities for gun owners and doing to gun manufacturers what they did to tobacco companies. In the meantime, however, if somebody breaks into my house, they're gonna get shot.
The blatant Texas mid-decade move is that person breaking into the House and it demands a response that may be distasteful or against normal principles, but it's either shoot or just sit down and let the intruder rape your wife and steal your stuff.
Sorry, we know how much you'd prefer capitulation, but the escalation began with DonOld.
I do not know if Abbot or Trump thought of it first. It has started some reactions. I have seen some stories that if this goes the distance the republicans have a small advantage.
The blatant Texas mid-decade move is that person breaking into the House and it demands a response that may be distasteful or against normal principles, but it's either shoot or just sit down and let the intruder rape your wife and steal your stuff.
That's what spineless Vrede would do. Hell, she would be too deep in her daily BRD patrols to even notice.
Plus, CA is allowing its voters to decide whether it does a gerrymander to match the Texass' bending over for corrupt MAGA. Texass government was too cowardly to put it to a vote.
Lament the murder, not the murdered.
1312. ETTD. 86 47.
Gerrymandering has never been secret, but the GQP has taken it to an extreme after recent censuses. It also was limited to every 10 years. Uber-corrupt and undemocratic MAGA is now changing that.
