From gerrymandering to voter purging the critical issues facing the supreme court

[turbinetree]

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the upcoming US supreme court season would be “momentous”, the celebrated liberal justice probably didn’t mean it as a good thing.

With the addition to the bench of Trump’s nominee Neil Gorsuch, and a broad swath of ideological cases on the docket, conservatives hope the supreme court is on the brink of a banner year.

Gorsuch will be another conservative voice on the court, continuing the trend of recent years, and once again, moderate justice Anthony Kennedy – Gorsuch’s former mentor – will be the key swing vote.

The court opens on Monday with consideration of worker class-actions lawsuits, and on Tuesday justices will consider political gerrymandering of election districts, the biggest case of its kind in more than a decade. Meanwhile a case out of Ohio seeks to legalize voter purging, and a cake maker’s objection to gay marriage in Colorado will come under the microscope.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/01/supreme-court-key-cases-2017-gerrymander-travel-ban

Gorsuch..................

[sharedvalues]

1. Biggest issue: Stolen Seat. And politicization of the court by the GOP their billionaire backers

[turbinetree]

2. Those (4) right wing justices and the illegitimate one (Gorsuch) are going to turn

this country into a fascist state and with this next election and 2020 if they gain four more states they will call for a Constitutional convention and rewrite, guided by the Koch's and the Mercers .............

[sharedvalues]

3. Yup. With their Stolen Seat and their donor-lapdog biased radical judges - Thomas, Alito

Thomas's wife is a GOP activist and like all involved in high level GOP politics today she is purchased by billionaires.
Alito is a climate change denier.

These are not fair, logical men. These are radical partisans. Stolen Seat Gorsuch joins that group.

[LenaBaby61]

6. From gerrymandering to voter purging the critical issues facing the supreme court.

"Those (4) right wing justices and the illegitimate one (Gorsuch) are going to turn this country into a fascist state and with this next election and 2020 if they gain four more states they will call for a Constitutional convention and rewrite, guided by the Koch's and the Mercers ..........."

There are MANY Dems who actually think that we will be able to "vote the bums out" in 2018 and then take back the White House in 2020.

I've had some here @ DU tell me that I'm thinking negatively when I speak about not being able to vote or about our votes NOT counting in 2018 or when I've mentioned potential High Court rulings in the future which MAY destroy our voting rights for good. Well, if that ruling comes down that reinstates all of the shenanigans that Walker/GOP/et were doing in Wisconsin (Voter-purging, gerrymandering, voter Id'ing etc.), there's no WAY that Wisconsin will be blue for a very long time again if EVER again. I don't trust this Department of Homeland Security as far as I can throw a mack truck. tRumputin has his phony voting commission co-chaired by a racist crook Kobach who doesn't want anybody to be able to vote or have control over this country but privileged, white, right-winged males. Our voting apparatus is broken mostly countrywide already, and you probably will have rulings that the High Court may accept which more than likely will be in favor of thuglicans IE: Voter-suppression off the CHAIN forever which will put thuglicans in complete power thanks to a 5-4 right-leaning court. I didn't even mention the fact that the ruskies are eyeball deep in meddling/shenanigans still, and one can ONLY imagine what type of negative impact they'll have all across this country concerning Dems--even in blue states--in 2018/2020 and beyond.

[flamin lib]

4. The gerrymandering case might be a winner for reason.

Last time it came up it was 4/4 with Kennedy abstaining. He abstained because there was not a way to measure the degree of impact on the vote a gerrymander had. Since then a theory of vote inequity measurement has been forwarded that may satisfy him and if so let him cast the deciding vote.

By counting the number of votes cast by each party and comparing it the number of seats won by each a value can be placed on the % of votes 'wasted' due to the boundaries drawn. A value of 7% is considered the threshold for intentional voter interference.

Wisconsin is the case before the court and the vote was 49% R with 60% of seats won. A 17% discrepancy.

[mountain grammy]

5. Can't even think about it.. too depressing.