WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
No justices dissented from the brief order denying the appeal without explanation, which is common on the court’s emergency docket.
The fact that it’s legal at all is absolutely unhinged.
States are free to make it illegal for themselves otherwise the federal government only prevents serious discriminations like race (there’s a few more basic voting rights too)
It may not be perfect but federalism gives states their own rights and that’s also why Trump can’t just take them over so you get the good with the bad
Ah yes, giving states their own rights…the thing that has totally never been used as cover for something else that’s completely unjustifiable.
It goes both ways
My state is quite nice for it and I’m glad Trump can’t make my state pass laws or do whatever he wants
In all seriousness though, gerrymandering is an incredibly open and shameless form of corruption, and it’s wild that you guys give it any kind of legitimacy.
You really gotta understand America as 50 different countries in a union for stuff like this 🤷♀️
Some states have made it effectively nonexistent through mathematically neutral and independent districting commissions
But this is a tragedy of the commons so if republicans win in and then gerrymander wnoigh states without a national solution in place then they will slowly gain a disproportionate and non representative minority government which is what we have right now and why everything that’s happening is happening
It’s created red states with essentially impossible to challenge legislatures so the only way out is for Dems to win again and create a national voting rights act again that makes gerrymandering more difficult, less effective, or impossible altogether
Right, so it’s a huge problem, regardless of how you understand America.
Good for the states that have made it effectively nonexistent, but because the issue is left up the individual states, the more corrupt ones are able drag the rest into fascism. Great job, y’all.
Not sure what to tell you other than we’ve been fighting for now centuries to correct these problems and we still are
What point are you making exactly?
Do you have a magic solution?
My point was simply to remind Americans who might be reading that gerrymandering is indeed just regular old corruption, and should not be thought of as “just the way things are” or some such.
I know a lot of Americans have been tricked into thinking that the country is some sort of model democracy, although most of those probably aren’t on lemmy, and the orange pedophile has done a marvelous job of demolishing what was left of the USA’s reputation…but anyway, just hoping to nudge people in the direction of helping with that fight.
He can’t?
No he can’t