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.
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.