CNN Breaking News: SCOTUS just announced GOP can gerrymander to their hearts content

[NewsCenter28]

That’s not what CNN says but basically that’s what the fascist Roberts court just did in reality:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/north-carolina-supreme-court-redistricting/index.html

We all know Roberts and Kennedy were signalling the NC fed court ruling is dead by doing this.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yes, and if you think the SC is bad now...

[NewsCenter28]

2. Yes we need a Dem senate more than the house-n/t

[Matthew28]

3. This is messed up

The republican party hates democracy as they can't win if it was fair.

Evil elitist bastards.

[NewsCenter28]

4. Satanic-n/t

[rainy]

5. This is brutal humiliation to all good

people. I feel the disgust in my core

[former9thward]

6. It was a 7-2 decision.

Kagan and Breyer voted with the majority.

[Blue_true]

12. You caught it. I didn't understand the OP title after reading the article.

Two liberals voted to freeze the 3 Judge ruling. That makes me feel better about the final ruling once the Court hears oral arguments. Kennedy and Roberts may vote with the liberals in a final ruling - my guess is Roberts or Kennedy brokered a deal to get the two liberal votes.

[Xipe Totec]

7. They will regret this when it's the Democrat's turn to gerrymander

And that's not too far away now.

[Wwcd]

8. + a million.

We will.

[still_one]

9. To those who willfully refused to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016, and painted false

equivalencies by saying they were "tired of voting for the lesser of two evils", and how the Supreme Court wasn't a good enough reason...


fuck you

[choie]

10. uh - Kagan and Breyer

voted with the majority, the 2016 election results have nothing to do with it.

[brush]

17. This just put it on hold, right? Otherwise those 2 better have a good reason for siding with repugs

[still_one]

20. That is exactly right, delayed until 2018 as I understand it. The Texas redistricting in late 2017

was split across ideological lines with the SC, 5-4, and was put on hold

The SC is important

[still_one]

19. My point still stands. The Supreme Court was always a critical issue, whcih is why we have Gorsuch

This specific issue said that NC did not have to immediately redraw Congressional maps for the next election,

What happened late in 2017 in regard to Texas redistricting was put on hold with a 5 - 4 decision across ideological lines

[Cha]

13. +MIllions

[rainy]

14. 3,000,000 more people did vote for Hillary

The election was stolen.

[Igel]

22. It was mostly stolen by the Constitution.

(R) states were often slightly (R); (D) states were deeply (D). The state boundaries constituted the most significant gerrymandering.

[mr_lebowski]

11. 'Freeze, for now' ...

How much you wanna bet that it'll be suddenly 'un-froze' ... right around November 9th, 2018?

Why the hell is this just a 'freeze', why are they not just 'deciding'? Under what conditions (ostensibly) are they planning to revisit their decision?

What manner of F***ERY is this, anyways? What fresh hell?

And WTH is up w/Kagan and Breyer FFS. Kagan especially.

[uponit7771]

15. Shit, well ... this is temporary, hopefully the USSC will hurry up and do something

[Blue_true]

16. Nothing beats voting.

Virginia was and still is gerrymandered to grossly favor republicans, the Dem governor could not reverse that with a heavily republican legislature. But look at what happened when people on our side made an effort to vote and ignored the bullshit from the Our Revolution idiots.

[Bucky]

18. Repeat after me: "2020, 2020, 2020"

State Legislative elections will be unbelievably important 3 years from now. Those are the state legislatures that will draw the lines.

[bluestarone]

21. the only good thing is we now know. SO

GET OUT TO VOTE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!! continue fight this after we get control