Gerrymandering Ruling News Today

Gerrymandering case allows safe houses across the nation to redraw the lines however they want, in the grand scheme of things census question is a minor issue at this point because the gerrymandering went through and republican state houses are going to throughout the nation be able to draw the lines however they want to without concern of being pseudo. so i think that its a perfect example of kind of dog whistling that people are so up and arms about this, if you look and play chess instead of ...

I know the whole gerrymandering thing sometimes just sounds like another fine print processing thing, but that gerrymandering ruling from the supreme court yesterday it utterly scrambles the playing field for electoral politics for the next decade, and it urgently changes what both parties are going to need to prioritize right now for the next year for the next election, because whatever happens in the presidential election in 2020, whatever happens in the house and the senate elections in 2020,...

Gerrymandering ruling, how troubling was that for you? >> the jerry mannedering case in many ways is more difficult than it appears at first blush, the most important thing for people to understand is that gerrymandering is not inherently political. it doesnt favor democrats or republicans. its really a democratic institution. what we want is a system where voters picked their elected officials. we dont want elected officials picking their voters. thats what jerry mannedering permits both partie...

Those function like laws. what the court said here is, listen, were going to send this back to you. you did not follow the process that congress laid out for you in the administrative procedure act to make good decisions. so in that way its good in that it narrows the power of the executive, gives it back to the legislature. on the partisan gerrymandering side, essentially the court saying give this back to the legislature. the problem with that is the legislature itself is broken. thats the arg...