Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -
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Friday, 21 April 2017
quote [ The hand-to-hand political combat in House elections on Tuesday in Georgia and last week in Kansas had the feel of the first rounds of an epic battle next year for control of the House of Representatives and the direction of national politics as the Trump presidency unfolds.
But for all the zeal on the ground, none of it may matter as much as a case heading to the Supreme Court, one that could transform political maps from City Hall to Congress ] To quote Joe Bidden...This is a BFD
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LurkerAtTheGate said[1] @ 7:43pm GMT on 21st Apr
"but has never found a way to decide which ones cross the line."
Expect that to continue. This is the SCOTUS that keeps to the strict definition of 'corruption' as an explicit bribery. I'd be completely shocked if that nearly-same SCOTUS had any issue whatsoever with what qualifies currently as "legal gerrymandering." |
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lilmookieesquire said @ 9:26pm GMT on 21st Apr
At this point, I think I have even less faith in the SCOTUS fixing this than I do in the senate fixing this.
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gma said @ 10:07pm GMT on 21st Apr
Say they decide this is illegal. And in fact they decide every state has to redraw their districts using an impartial algorithm. What the heck is fair? I literally have no idea.
Using geographic boundaries? "Regular" shaped district borders? Existing political boundaries? Trying to make sure significant ethnic/racial/economic groups have power in their district(s)? Reflecting statewide party preference? And even if you do that last one, what's fair? If it's a 90/10 statewide split with the 10 relatively spread out, do you create a Rorschach Test-looking district to assemble enough votes to create a minority party district? Do you engineer some share of competitive districts and the rest proportional to state party preference? If so, what share should be competitive? Even if we all agreed this needs fixing, there'd be tons of fights on how to fix it. |
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cb361 said @ 9:10am GMT on 22nd Apr
[Score:1 Insightful]
Like a lot of the "intractable" problems that affect the USA, other countries have been able to find solutions.
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HoZay said @ 10:27pm GMT on 21st Apr
The pivotal moment was in November.
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bbqkink said @ 11:46pm GMT on 21st Apr
Ya, you are right, with the new justice that Clinton just nominated this should be a slam dunk...oh ya that didn't happen.
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